Mead Journal: Bluberry Vanilla and others
Apr. 23rd, 2012 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrix4bSo, got a lot done over the weekend that I have been putting off. Thanks to my new aprentice, Amy. A friend's kid. My tenant calls me Darth Fermentus and her Darth Scrub. Humorous but not neccessary. Teaching her how to brew mead.
So here is what we accomplished:
Blueberry Vanilla: Racked this off and added 1 cup of lemon juice to this 6 gal batch. Also, I blended up 6 pounds of blueberies and ran through the strainer. Then pored in. It is now a nice purple color. I will add the vanilla later, also will back sweeten it a bit because I got a request to make this very sweet. I also plan on oaking it with some lightly toasted oak chips.
Strawberry and Mango Meads: Finally took out the fruit. I shouldn't be suprised that it barely had any pulp left in the nylon back. Most of it was in the mead.
Bamboo Jasmin: This one, I got 1/2 oz of jasmin and tasted a bit in some boiled water and sugar. It had a nice subtle taste so I added 1 cup of lemon juice to punch up the flavor a bit. All in All it dropped quickly. So maybe a touch of vanilla, stablizing, backsweetening,
Tale of 3 Toasts: The rockbitter trio is holding up well, I amy need to rack it. The mead hasn't cleared yet.
Oh and also de-labled 4 cases of bottles as it was a nice day.
Next up with the aprentice may be to do more bottles and to possilbe bottle the Tale of 3 Toasts. I may need to rack it this again. It does have some sediment and is a bit cloudy.
That's all for now,
Dave
So here is what we accomplished:
Blueberry Vanilla: Racked this off and added 1 cup of lemon juice to this 6 gal batch. Also, I blended up 6 pounds of blueberies and ran through the strainer. Then pored in. It is now a nice purple color. I will add the vanilla later, also will back sweeten it a bit because I got a request to make this very sweet. I also plan on oaking it with some lightly toasted oak chips.
Strawberry and Mango Meads: Finally took out the fruit. I shouldn't be suprised that it barely had any pulp left in the nylon back. Most of it was in the mead.
Bamboo Jasmin: This one, I got 1/2 oz of jasmin and tasted a bit in some boiled water and sugar. It had a nice subtle taste so I added 1 cup of lemon juice to punch up the flavor a bit. All in All it dropped quickly. So maybe a touch of vanilla, stablizing, backsweetening,
Tale of 3 Toasts: The rockbitter trio is holding up well, I amy need to rack it. The mead hasn't cleared yet.
Oh and also de-labled 4 cases of bottles as it was a nice day.
Next up with the aprentice may be to do more bottles and to possilbe bottle the Tale of 3 Toasts. I may need to rack it this again. It does have some sediment and is a bit cloudy.
That's all for now,
Dave