thorson138
Well-Known Member
Hey all. I have a 5 gallon batch of melomel that just completed ferment. I started the batch off as a traditional show mead and after ferment was all but finished I added 4 lbs of a fruit mixture of sliced strawberries, mangos, peaches, and pineapples and left it in for 1.5-2 weeks.
I sampled it today as I racked off of the fruit. It was dry and gravity read 1.002. I needed to top off when I racked back into a 5 gallon glass carboy for bulk aging so I got into a stash of really sweet mead I bottled in December last year (gravity was 1.040). Sweet-sweet-sweet!
I used 3 champagne bottles of the sweet stuff to top off the 5 gallons of relatively dry melomel. What overall effect do you think this will have on this batch if I bottle mid-Seprember???
Thanks for your oppinions in advance.
Mike
I sampled it today as I racked off of the fruit. It was dry and gravity read 1.002. I needed to top off when I racked back into a 5 gallon glass carboy for bulk aging so I got into a stash of really sweet mead I bottled in December last year (gravity was 1.040). Sweet-sweet-sweet!
I used 3 champagne bottles of the sweet stuff to top off the 5 gallons of relatively dry melomel. What overall effect do you think this will have on this batch if I bottle mid-Seprember???
Thanks for your oppinions in advance.
Mike