Advice Needed w/ Mead

[MeadMark12]

Hey guys , quick question. I just got into making a couple of 5 gallon batches of fruit mead.After a month should I rack it like you would when making wine? I’ve been making wine for several years and wanted to try something different.
Thanks for any advice.

 

[dmtaylor]

Yes, treat your mead the same as you would wine. If you feel it is time to rack, then rack it.

 

[MajorJC]

Yes, rack to secondary to get it off the yeast and get all the fruit out. After it clears and settles a while in the secondary I usually get another inch of yeast and other stuff settling on the bottom of the carboy and I'll rack it again to another clean carboy to bulk age for a year or three before bottling it. I'm actually thinking about getting a five gallon oak barrel to use for bulk aging.