there are plenty of melomel recipes floating around. These are a few guide lines I use when making a melomel.
Buy some ferm buckets, make 1.5 gallons. When you remove the used fruit and rack you should have closer to an actual one gallon batch to age.
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put your fruit in a Muslin bag, so when you take your fruit out all you need to do is grab the bag and toss it in the trash.
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2-3lbs of fruit per gallon. you can go up or down as much as you want. more fruit, more intense flavor. Some fruits have such a light flavor you need to go on the heavy side. Or if you want a light flavor go light.
When fermenting fruit the flavor changes, if you want a more true fruit flavor add the fruit in the secondary. or do both primary and secondary. BOOM!
I always freeze my fruit, it helps break down the fruit and makes it easier for the yeast to ferment. prepare your must(honey,water,fruit), 24hours before pitching your yeast you want to add some K Met sulfite(the amount escapes me right now)kills wild yeast and bacteria. 12 hours before you pitch the yeast add pectic enzyme(again cant think of the amount, don't have my book on me), helps break down the fruit further.
rehydrate your yeast, if you don't have GO Ferm don't sweat it, just use some luke warm water ONLY! no nutrients. ONce you start making a lot invest in some Go Ferm. To start out with id use 71B yeast.
use nutrients and aerate once you start seeing fermentation
punch down the fruit and flip the bag over every couple days
remove the muslin bag of fruit in about 1-2 weeks.
1 month rack it and ignore it for 6 months