Mead Journal: Racking Blueberry mead.

[matrix4b]

I racked the blueberry mead,  Turning out very winelike.  I think that I might back sweeten it a bit and dilute it as well.  It smells like wine.  I am thinking on adding 6 pounds of honey and another gallon of water with it's 3rd or 4th racking. Racked 2 times now,  I raked it on the 10th.  Still very green.  It had a LOT of yeast in it from the extra-dosing of yeast AND nutirents as it wasn't fermenting in the primary hardly at all.  Once I racked it, it started fermenting again.  Odd.  I hope that the taste isn't as sour as it is now.  

The Strawberry I only racked once, and I need to rack it a second time.  That fermented furiously for 3 weeks strait and then hardly at all in the secondary.  Apears to be done fementing and just needs aging and sorting out.  I was thinking on on the 4th racking dosing it with a bit more sweetness AND a pound more of strawberries.  I should have put the fruit in the secondary on both.  I figured I would try a batch both ways and compair.

Comments

[ryversong.livejournal.com]

*drools*

Mead is god...

[matrix4b.livejournal.com]

And frightfully easy to make. If it weren't for the time it takes I can see many underage kids making a killing selling it to other underage kids. It justs takes about a year to make.