Pics: http://imgur.com/a/7pZde
Recipe:
24 lbs. Orange Blossom Honey
5 gallons water
15 grams Lalvin 71B - Rehydrated with Go-Ferm at 104F
Staggered Nutrient additions per Ken Schramm - Yeast Nutrient and Diammonium Phosphate.
OG = 1.125
FG = 1.020
2.5 - 3 lbs. Fruit per gallon in Secondary.
I've made 3 fruit-heavy melomels in the past and fermented all the fruit in Primary. I'm trying out a different technique this time by only adding fruit to Secondary. It'll be harder to rack/bottle since I couldn't put the fruit in a muslin bag. This batch of honey was exceptionally fruity (orange candy!) so I wanted to make 1 gallon of pure honey mead ... then hit the remainder with different fruits.
I'll post an update upon tasting/bottling/backsweetening.
Cheers!
Update 1: Ok, so I woke up this morning at 3am to find that three of the meads had expanded juice up into the airlocks (see new pic in gallery). I figured there'd be a chance of this. Might take a wine thief's worth of mead from each gallon to make some head room. :smack: Lesson learned ...
Update 2: 9:30amPST: Wine-thief idea didn't work, so I just poured off a portion of each gallon into the non-fruited gallon. Easy fix ... if a little messy. (see new pic in gallery)
Recipe:
24 lbs. Orange Blossom Honey
5 gallons water
15 grams Lalvin 71B - Rehydrated with Go-Ferm at 104F
Staggered Nutrient additions per Ken Schramm - Yeast Nutrient and Diammonium Phosphate.
OG = 1.125
FG = 1.020
2.5 - 3 lbs. Fruit per gallon in Secondary.
I've made 3 fruit-heavy melomels in the past and fermented all the fruit in Primary. I'm trying out a different technique this time by only adding fruit to Secondary. It'll be harder to rack/bottle since I couldn't put the fruit in a muslin bag. This batch of honey was exceptionally fruity (orange candy!) so I wanted to make 1 gallon of pure honey mead ... then hit the remainder with different fruits.
I'll post an update upon tasting/bottling/backsweetening.
Cheers!
Update 1: Ok, so I woke up this morning at 3am to find that three of the meads had expanded juice up into the airlocks (see new pic in gallery). I figured there'd be a chance of this. Might take a wine thief's worth of mead from each gallon to make some head room. :smack: Lesson learned ...
Update 2: 9:30amPST: Wine-thief idea didn't work, so I just poured off a portion of each gallon into the non-fruited gallon. Easy fix ... if a little messy. (see new pic in gallery)