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Mead Journal: "The Limey"
Jun. 2nd, 2008 02:29 pmWell, I raked "The Limey" for the first time last night.
When I put together the batch I used about the same recipie as the Rockbitter except I did use 1 cup of lime juice. I put 3 more cups in the secondary. This is in a 5 galon batch, actually it turned out to be almost 6 gallons. A bit more than the previous batch. While Racking the Limey I noticed that the color was MUCH lighter than I expected. Surely one cup in an entire gallon shouldn't make that much of a diffrence. The Rock Biter was a nice darkish brown and the Limey turned out to be a carmel like tan. Odd. Although it did do it's frenzy of primary fermentation for about 1 1/2 weeks there was very little sediment when I raked it. Odd. It was very opaque too. Hmm, possibly it will start fermenting again. I wonder how much the lime juice has affected the acidity levels. I wonder if I should be looking for another frenzy of fermentation. I was thinking that it may turn out dryer and more alcoholic than I want. I was going for a slightly less sweet batch but using the same amount of honey. I wonder what will happen.
NED's Happy Place Mead.
On other news, I juiced 2 basketball sized watermellons. Put it through the blender then filtered the pulp through a screen. Twice through a fine screen. Then the pulp through the blender again. Got a few more cups of juice out of it then ran that through the screen twice. It is sitting in the frige now. Looks to be settled a bit with a bit more pulp. Not much. All told it made about a gallon and a half of juice. Looks pretty. This will go with one packet of yeast and 20 pounds of wild flower honey. Going to use it in the primary with about 3 gallons of water. Should make a 6 gallon batch easy.
More after it has been started.
When I put together the batch I used about the same recipie as the Rockbitter except I did use 1 cup of lime juice. I put 3 more cups in the secondary. This is in a 5 galon batch, actually it turned out to be almost 6 gallons. A bit more than the previous batch. While Racking the Limey I noticed that the color was MUCH lighter than I expected. Surely one cup in an entire gallon shouldn't make that much of a diffrence. The Rock Biter was a nice darkish brown and the Limey turned out to be a carmel like tan. Odd. Although it did do it's frenzy of primary fermentation for about 1 1/2 weeks there was very little sediment when I raked it. Odd. It was very opaque too. Hmm, possibly it will start fermenting again. I wonder how much the lime juice has affected the acidity levels. I wonder if I should be looking for another frenzy of fermentation. I was thinking that it may turn out dryer and more alcoholic than I want. I was going for a slightly less sweet batch but using the same amount of honey. I wonder what will happen.
NED's Happy Place Mead.
On other news, I juiced 2 basketball sized watermellons. Put it through the blender then filtered the pulp through a screen. Twice through a fine screen. Then the pulp through the blender again. Got a few more cups of juice out of it then ran that through the screen twice. It is sitting in the frige now. Looks to be settled a bit with a bit more pulp. Not much. All told it made about a gallon and a half of juice. Looks pretty. This will go with one packet of yeast and 20 pounds of wild flower honey. Going to use it in the primary with about 3 gallons of water. Should make a 6 gallon batch easy.
More after it has been started.