First Mead

[BillyKBearkiller]

I just made my first batch of mead. 5 gal of a simple lemonade/orange blossom honey mead. 6 lbs orange blossom honey, 2 lbs corn sugar, 5 tbs fermaid K, 4 12 oz cans frozen lemonade concentrate, champagne yeast.

Amateur here, just wanted to give it a shot....and I always say, go big or go home.

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[BillyKBearkiller]

The ingredients

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[BillyKBearkiller]

Waiting for the bubbles to start.

Sg after cooling was 1.114 so im hoping to get around a 14% abv in the end.

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[bboyeruga]

Wow that seems like a really high gravity for your ingredients. Impressive! I've got 12 lbs of Orange blossom just waiting to be made into Mead. Guess I've been hesitant to make it because I don't want to screw it up with such an expensive bill lol

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[BillyKBearkiller]

Ill keep posting updates here. Literally just put it in the carboy a couple hours ago.

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[bboyeruga]

Where are you at??? Must be across the pond or you got up very early to brew up a batch.

 

[BillyKBearkiller]

I'm over in okinawa

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[BillyKBearkiller]

The Mead is a bubbling along now. Should be ready for transfer to bottle sometime around Mar 8th.

 

[BillyKBearkiller]

Gonna make the attempt to transfer tomorrow

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[Arpolis]

Sounds great. Glad it fermented easily for you and is going along. One of my favorite meads is a lemon mead. I highly suggest adding sorbate and Camden. Then back sweetening to about the 1.01 or higher range with additional honey. That really helps the lemon flavor.

 

[BillyKBearkiller]

I followed your advice and back sweetened with some honey at bottling yesterday. Got great numbers......about 14.5% alcohol by vol. Just waiting a couple of weeks for it to clarify now.

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[BillyKBearkiller]

Final Sg

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[BillyKBearkiller]

My mind was bottled.

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[BillyKBearkiller]

Turned out pretty good after 2 weeks of bottle curing. Still clarifying though. Pics to come

 

[Arpolis]

Lemon meads are pretty fun. Glad you are liking it. Clearing can be difficult some times. A couple months ago I started several gallon batches. Out of that I have two traditionals and a pyment that cleared brilliantly by themselves but my lemon meads are still a bit hazy. I threw them in the fridge since I am impatient. After two days in the fridge they already have a noticeable improvement.