melomel

[dopplebock]

got two fruit meads (melomel) going now.
one gallon and 2 liter batches.
strawberry mead and clementine mead. these will take a few months and i think they'll turn out great!

one gallon:
3 lbs clover honey
2 lbs frozen (are best!) strawberries
cuvee yeast
spring water
stabilizers.

[dopplebock]

here's the mead roughly 78 hr's after fermintation took off. will add strawberries in secondary. it may not look like it's doing much from this small image but i had recently stirred it to sink some foam. it's actually bubbling like mad!


closeup of fermentation, dark things are raisins.


also have a 2 liter batch going:
will add ez cap after 7 days to make sparkling mead. this one will be clementine mead.

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here's the mead roughly 78 hr's after fermintation took off. will add strawberries in secondary. it may not look like it's doing much from this small image but i had recently stirred it to sink some foam. it's actually bubbling like mad!


closeup of fermentation, dark things are raisins.


also have a 2 liter batch going:
will add ez cap after 7 days to make sparkling mead. this one will be clementine mead.

So how did it turn out? Great pictures, BTW!