Mead Journal: "The Limey" or "A sailor's tea"

Well, I finally juiced 10 pounds of lime juice.  Suprisingly it isn't much volume. 10 pounds is actually 6 cups of Lime juice.  Quite potent stuff.  Thinking a 6 gallon batch I will use 3 cups of Lime juice in the secondary with 20 pounds Alfalpha honey.  The original mix is the same as the Rockbiter mead, just still honey mead of a very sweet level.  Adding about 3-4 cups of Lime juice to the secondary should give t a distinctive lime taste but still on the subtle side. Going to start the primary this weekend.  Then hopefully the secondary will be about the begining of June.  About Mid-June I plan on doing the watermellon, Hmm, I know that the height of watermellon season is July 4th but should be some good ones at that time.  Should keep an eye on the stores.

I was thinking calling the Lime Mead "The Limey" or "Sailor's Tea".    Hmm, Sailor's Tea sounds better to me but The Limey is probably more catchy.  I was thinking on Limestone as a play off of the Rockbitter brew.  That is a bit cheasy though.  The Primary fermentation will take about 2 weeks.  Lime Juice is fairly resilient, I am going to freeze what I don't use though.  I have high hopes for a very subtle and sweet alternitive to the Rockbitter that may appeal to those Corona type drinkers or more of the bear croud.  I am not going to put in spanish moss as I have seen some recipies for mead call for.  I wonder what it does to the flavor.

Mead Journal: Racking Blueberry mead.

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.