Racking the Melomel to a Secondary

Today I racked to a secondary my first (and, so far, only) melomel. The raspberry mead (No. 6) had a slightly sweet aroma to it, and its taste, while young, was pleasant too. I had lazily left it in the primary for 2 months (it was originally pitched on July 9) but also because I've heard you should wait for the fruit to settle to the bottom. But like my cyser, the fruit never did so, so I decided to rack it over.

As this was also one of my early meads where I didn't take an original gravity reading, there's no starting point for determining alcohol content, but the final reading was 0.994.

Also racked over to a secondary my attempt at a very sweet mead (No. 7), which has indeed a very sweet taste that definitely overpowers any alcohol flavor, but with a gravity reading of 1.106, that's perhaps not very surprising. The "carbonation" that was seemingly present the last time I tested it (Aug. 14) has completely dissipated and it now seems very still.

But now I really need to come up with a table to record my findings with these meads because this blog is something of a mess with information about the particular meads all over the place. A table would be much more helpful and allow me to see at a glance what still needs to be achieved with each batch and where we are at any point in time.

UPDATE: I added nearly a quart of pomegranate juice to the raspberry mead to make up the volume and add some additional sweetness. I had wanted to add raspberry juice, but apparently they don't make that, so I did see a few store brand juices with a pomegranate-raspberry mix and decided to go with that.

I had seen on the GotMead? forums that Swordnut(?) recommended adding a little bit of juice at a time over a couple of days to adjust the taste. I neglected to do that and the mead has a definite pomegranate-y taste which I hope will mellow with time. I didn't taste much of the raspberry after the addition, and if that's been overpowered by the pomegranate that will be a disappointment.

I've also put it into the refrigerator to cold crash it for a period of two weeks.