I racked the blueberry mead (No. 13) off of the bentonite into a 2-1/2 gallon glass jar I picked up from Wal-Mart for about $12. The lid is metal and needs to be modified or replaced, but for my purposes today it was fine as a vessel to hold the mead for bottling.
There was actually about 375 ml more than 2-1/2 gallons between the 1 gallon carboy and 2 gallon pail I had racked the mead into when I added the bentonite, so I combined the two leftovers into a one gallon carboy and will let it settle out again and then bottle into a 375 ml bottle. It will be drier than the 2-1/2 gallon batch because I flavored and backsweetened the larger batch, but it still tasted good.
Without sweetening, while the mead was dry, it did have a pleasant berry taste, but muted. So I backsweetened it with 12 oz of honey and 2 oz of natural blueberry flavoring and though it raised the mead to 1.002, and I thought it tasted great.
I'm going to let it sit for a day just to make sure fermentation doesn't restart, and it shouldn't since I had added the campden tablets, but just to make certain and then tomorrow I'll bottle.
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