Ok, so for the first time ever, I managed to get something to clarify.
I did a pineapple mead, using concentrate. It seemed happy in the primary, rotated to a carboy and proceeded to do the rack dance (re-racked it twice in a 3 month period) wandered out for a sample and a looksee and noticed this stuff had came up a rich vibrant golden color, nearly perfectly clear and looked fantastic.
Unfortunately, it tasted rather acidy... the kind of taste that sucks the enamel off your teeth.
So, tossed in some enzyme to reduce the acid level (it had a rather nice pineapple floral at this point).
Let it set for a couple weeks until it dropped clear again.
Now I managed to kill a bit of the floral, and the flavor would best be described as a cross between paint stripper and really cheap white wine.
I picked up a couple sample bottles and part of my goal is to send them off to folks like Oskaar, Wraithe and probably Vicky to get some feedback, but pretty much at this point I am stumped.
Prettiest looking stuff I have made to date, and sure nuff, tastes completely aweful (so I figured I would send out samples to see if I could spread the love ::laughing:: )
--Launce
I did a pineapple mead, using concentrate. It seemed happy in the primary, rotated to a carboy and proceeded to do the rack dance (re-racked it twice in a 3 month period) wandered out for a sample and a looksee and noticed this stuff had came up a rich vibrant golden color, nearly perfectly clear and looked fantastic.
Unfortunately, it tasted rather acidy... the kind of taste that sucks the enamel off your teeth.
So, tossed in some enzyme to reduce the acid level (it had a rather nice pineapple floral at this point).
Let it set for a couple weeks until it dropped clear again.
Now I managed to kill a bit of the floral, and the flavor would best be described as a cross between paint stripper and really cheap white wine.
I picked up a couple sample bottles and part of my goal is to send them off to folks like Oskaar, Wraithe and probably Vicky to get some feedback, but pretty much at this point I am stumped.
Prettiest looking stuff I have made to date, and sure nuff, tastes completely aweful (so I figured I would send out samples to see if I could spread the love ::laughing:: )
--Launce