mooney
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I'm new to mead, this is just my second batch. used to do beer but its not worth the saving any more so trying to fill all my old beer bottles with mead and hide them Under my floor boards to age. My first batch was too successful and less than half the bottles made it under the floor, but my wife thought it was too dry so this batch I went the opposite way.
Made 2 batches of one british gallon 5l. one with 1.5kg of raspberries in and one with 1.5kg of brambles (wild blackberries) and in each 2.38kg of tesco value honey. Which I knew rite away was far to much. When I trued to take a specific gravity reading the hydrometer was off the scale. So I pitched them with a packet each of Youngs champagne yeast. with neutrient and pectic enzyme.
So 2 and a half months latter fermentation has stopped with a specific gravity of 1.035 approx and to be honest they are both tasting pretty dam good. Very sweet but perfect for a desert wine, not my cup of tea but my wife loves sweet port and desert wine.
What I want to know is is it worth keeping some thing like this to age. I want to stabilise and add finings and bottle to get some thing dry and more to my taste in the demijohns but will aging some thing like this turn out really nice our should I cut my losses drink it all and start again using allot less honey?
Made 2 batches of one british gallon 5l. one with 1.5kg of raspberries in and one with 1.5kg of brambles (wild blackberries) and in each 2.38kg of tesco value honey. Which I knew rite away was far to much. When I trued to take a specific gravity reading the hydrometer was off the scale. So I pitched them with a packet each of Youngs champagne yeast. with neutrient and pectic enzyme.
So 2 and a half months latter fermentation has stopped with a specific gravity of 1.035 approx and to be honest they are both tasting pretty dam good. Very sweet but perfect for a desert wine, not my cup of tea but my wife loves sweet port and desert wine.
What I want to know is is it worth keeping some thing like this to age. I want to stabilise and add finings and bottle to get some thing dry and more to my taste in the demijohns but will aging some thing like this turn out really nice our should I cut my losses drink it all and start again using allot less honey?