As the title would suggest, I'm making a batch of mead. This photo was taken over the weekend as I was transferring the batch out of the secondary, and back in to the fermenter where it will stay for the next 2-4 weeks. It's about 12%% ABV, and drinkable as-is, but this is not its final form. Ingredients used in fermentation were a large quantity of pumpkin flower honey, water, and Wyeast 4632; original gravity was 1.090, final gravity was 1.000. It still tastes somewhat sweet despite all the fermentable sugars having been fermented, with a bit of a spiced finish.
The bulk of the batch was racked on to a mix of blackberries, red raspberries, and golden raspberries at a ratio of about 3:
:1/2. The blackberries and golden raspberries were harvested from my back yard (the raspberry bush is visible in the background, behind the roses), the red raspberries were sourced from a local farmers co-op.
After the 2-4 weeks of infusing are done it will go back in the secondary for at least 90 days to mature and finish clarifying at which point it will be ready to be bottled.
P.S. - I don't know what happened to the formatting there in the middle, and I also don't care. Thanks for reading, or not.
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Hopefully you just put it out in the sun for a picture
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Yeah, it went in the fridge then I drank it. That's the stuff that was too close to the settled yeast to risk syphoning it out on to the berries, but not so close that I was willing to throw it away.
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