Just want to share
 

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Just wanted to share a picture of my current batch, from left to right

5 gallons holiday spica methelgin: 12 allspice berries, 6 cinnamon sticks, 3 vanilla beans, 3lbs soybean/alfalfa/clover honey, 8 lbs goldenrod honey, Red Star Cote Des Blanc
5.5 gallons grapefruit melomel: 21 lbs soybean/alfalfa/clover honey, 6.5 lbs grapefruit, Lalvin 71-B
5.5 gallons peach melomel: 14lbs soybean/alfalfa/clover honey, Lalvin D-47
5.5 gallons goldenrod mead: 16lbs goldenrod honey, wyeast sweet mead yeast, repitched with red star montrachet
5 gallons cherry melomel (planned): 19lbs soybean/alfalfa/clover honey, Lalvin EC-1118, 6-7lbs cherries when they come in season

the respective ABVs for each are 13.4%, 19.6% (before adding fruit), 13.9% (before adding fruit), 16.9%, and 13.6%

Wow, impressive!!!

So there's no acidity issues in using grapefruit?

Wow, that really is impressive. I take it you are going for a few sweet meads in there? They sound tasty!

That's one heck of an investment....You're wise beyond your years.

Keep posting these picks as they begin to clear and at racking and such. I would love to hear tasting notes.
Will the D-47 leave sweet mead when you are finished at 14%? I'm ready to start a batch tonight with that very yeast...and I'm hoping to bust the barrier and end up sweet.

Actually all of these except the cherry are what I'd call medium, not overly sweet, not overly dry.

May I ask why you repitched?

I have a mead going with Wyeast Sweet Mead and have found it to be the slowest fermenting yeast I've ever encountered. I've been considering repitching with another yeast, suggestions?

Toomanycolours, I hate you and love you at the same time.

Joining these forums was a bad idea for me... I'm a jealous one.

I repitched because the wyeast I had was dead so i repitched and now it has a completely different profile

I recommend milk crates for those carboys. I will not transport a full carboy without one. ;)

post the OG's and current SG readings.