Mead Journal: Racking Blueberry mead.
May. 16th, 2008 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.