Mead No. 1
Gravity: 0.995
Racked it for a fourth time. There's really too much headroom in this one gallon carboy so I'm going to need to pick up a smaller bottle to put it into. Taste is really improving. It's still hot and I don't think it tastes like the Midnight Jack from Melovino -- it's got a chocolatey taste to it -- but it's not bad and after I rack it one more time into a smaller container I'll just let it age.
Mead No. 2
Already bottled.
Mead No. 3
Will wait till tomorrow for this one as my notes last time said it's ready for back sweetening and bottling, so I'll read up on the procedure for that first.
Mead No. 4
Broke my hydrometer trying to attach the hose to the racking cane so I'll need to get a new one (don't ask. Okay, I had the racking pump in the tube holding the hydrometer while I got the hose out of the StarSan. While trying to attach the hose I pressed down hard, forgetting the hydrometer was there and it cracked. Oh boy). I may just hold off on doing more mead work until I get a new hydrometer.
Mead No. 4, however, had been clearing and had only a little sediment on the bottom, but my methods of racking suck so I ended up stirring up a lot of the lees so it will probably need to be racked one more time.
Mead No. 5
This was a sort of JOAM, and it's turning pretty sweet. Still a little hot, but probably ready for some long-term aging now. I'll need to clear out a shelf where I'll put those that aren't going to be checked for some time.
Mead No. 6
Gravity: 1.010
Removed it from the refrigerator and racked it to a new carboy. I had forgotten to take a gravity reading after adding the pomegranate juice last time so I'm not sure what the difference was. However I sampled it, and Oh. My Goodness! This tastes really good. I see in my notes from last time that it had a tart taste after adding the pomegranate juice which also overpowered the raspberry flavor, but now the pomegranate flavor is much more subtle and there is definitely raspberry flavor throughout. Still a very slight "hotness" to it, no doubt from being young, but as I said it tastes really, really good. I'm quite pleased with it so far.
Tastings
Mead No. 7
Very sweet. No alcohol hotness discernible. Tastes pretty good, but in reality is probably too sweet.
Mead No. 8
There is a white film with some bubbles on the surface of the mead, which is a cyser. I still tasted it and it didn't taste bad, though it's flavor has weakened considerably over time.
Mead No. 9
Not very good. Dry tasting, and no sweetness. May need to back sweeten this one to make it palatable.
Mead No. 10
For some reason I keep expecting a chocolate syrup-like taste, but it's more of a hint of chocolate. It's good, but not great.
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