So my tea leaves aren't floating

[Tw0fish]

Making a sweet raspberry mead, the recipe for which I got from here and cannot find anymore or else I'd share it :cross: Plus I'm posting from school so I'm away from my recipe book! But suffice to say it's a gallon batch with 3.5-ish lb of honey and 1.5 lb of raspberries, plus tea leaves and some other things. This is my first batch made with tea.

The fruit is floating, as expected, but the tea is kinda settled out at the bottom. I guess I'm concerned because we all know honey settles at the bottom of a primary if it isn't mixed well enough, and it'd stand to reason that the tea leaves could settle into The Blob and thus not serve as big a role in the ferment as I'd like.

I have been swirling the jug around since the copious sugars make for enough gas to push the raspberries up into its neck - but the tea leaves don't seem to be zipping around and remain close to the bottom. Should I be concerned?

Thanks in advance.

 

[fatbloke]

If you made a pot of tea with the leaves you'd find that once the leaf tea was properly saturated, then it settles at the bottom of the pot........

So don't worry. They'll come out with racking.