Batch 25 – Blood Orange Mead

This is a pretty simple mead, one gallon batch size.

 

Process & Ingredients:

1 kg Wildflower honey from Jane’s Honey Bees

1/4 tsp yeast nutrient & 1/4 tsp yeast energizer

1 blood orange without skin

Lalvin 71B-1122 yeast package

 

Made on Sep 24, 2016 – no OG taken but calculated as 1.088

1/4 tsp yeast nutrient & 1/4 tsp yeast energizer added Sep 30

Gravity reading 10/24/2016 – 1.004

Racked to secondary 10/24/2016. Bottled 05/21/2017 into clear 375mL flint bottles. Ghetto transfer – just poured it in, so oxygen pickup will be higher than usual.