Hello,
I recently racked my mead for the last time before bottling. On previous rackings I had gotten rid of all of my gross lees, and on this last go I only had very fine, silty, lees layer. The mead has been aging for around 6 months now, and so I couldn't bring myself to dump the last half gallon of silty mead down the drain, so I kept it.
I have the silty mead in a separate bottle from my pure mead, and I DO NOT plan to mix the two later (don't worry).
I'm thinking about running the silty mead through a brita filter. The filter, I believe, would deal with the silt, but would it also eliminate a lot of my flavor and alcohol content?
I don't have high hopes for this extra mead, I'm just tooling around with it and having fun. Please let fill me in if you know anything. Thanks!
I recently racked my mead for the last time before bottling. On previous rackings I had gotten rid of all of my gross lees, and on this last go I only had very fine, silty, lees layer. The mead has been aging for around 6 months now, and so I couldn't bring myself to dump the last half gallon of silty mead down the drain, so I kept it.
I have the silty mead in a separate bottle from my pure mead, and I DO NOT plan to mix the two later (don't worry).
I'm thinking about running the silty mead through a brita filter. The filter, I believe, would deal with the silt, but would it also eliminate a lot of my flavor and alcohol content?
I don't have high hopes for this extra mead, I'm just tooling around with it and having fun. Please let fill me in if you know anything. Thanks!