bonescole
Active Member
Just a quick question about blueberry mead. I made a simple recipe of 24 oz blue berries 2.5# honey with Lavlin 1118 yeast and energizer a few months back and on the 8th of June racked the fermented product onto another 24 ounces of frozen blueberries. I just took an FG to start seeing if it is getting ready to bottle and it is at .994ish, my apartment is WAY hot right now, but brewcalcs is giving me the adjustment. My question is when can I have a good indication that this goodness is ready for bottling aside from taking readings to make sure they are consistently the same. Is clarity a factor? My ancient orange, which came out pretty good, was exceptionally clear where as this is harder to tell because it is deep purple/red like a Merlot. If I hold it to the light it has a murky look to it, but is that from the blueberries? Should I rack off of them into a clean secondary? Should I let it sit undisturbed until it clears? Any help is appreciated and for the record this stuff tastes really good and was crazy easy to make.