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Goin to reproduce one of my recipes but with lower abv

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The first time I made this blackberry mead I put enough honey to cap out the 71b yeast and have residual sweetness. It ended up having a final gravity of 1.010.

So now I want to make the mead again but with a abv of 12.5ish. I'm goin to back sweeten this but I'm thinking 1.010 will be too sweet now. Any recommendations?
 
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Well yeah that's the point sorry. When I backsweeten this I'm thinking the first fg of 1.010 will be too sweet now. So really just wing it and slowly backsweeten a little bit at a time?
 
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When you are ready to backsweeten, take a glass of mead and sweeten it a little at at a time until it tastes right. Then measure the gravity of it and that will be your target. I'd repeat this on separate days to be sure.

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