ok, payday... after a trip to the Local Home Meadmaking Shop I have new supplies.
Vintners Harvest Blackberry Melomel Base 96 oz
5 Pounds mixed fruit Frozen Blackberry, Strawberry,Blueberry,rasberry
Yeast Hulls
Isenglass
So i was thinking...
Yeast Starter, k1v-1116 or D-47
24 hours latermake a must
Blackberry base and 5lbs Fruit (thawned and mashed) in ingredient bag
Pectinase
1.5 pounds Buckwheat honey
6 pounds Blackberry honey
water to 5 gallons
Orangeblossom honey and/or water to 6 gallons and 1.13 O.G
3 grams yeast hulls (just for fun, because i just got them)
Stiring and punching as needed durring krausen in my bucket
After Krausen Remove ingredient bag sqeezing out all juice, Stir well, add bentonite, transfer to primary carboy(s) and airlock. This is a transfer not a racking (keeping yeast and sediment, I'd leave in bucket but i didn't buy fancy lids)
about 4 weeks after transfer to primary, Rack to secondary.
4 weeks into secondary, agitate to stir up sediment, add isenglass, Rack after 2 more weeks to bulk aging.
Fining is something new i'm trying... I had what i thought was a beutifully clear Blueberry mel.... ended up with sediment in the bottles.
Vintners Harvest Blackberry Melomel Base 96 oz
5 Pounds mixed fruit Frozen Blackberry, Strawberry,Blueberry,rasberry
Yeast Hulls
Isenglass
So i was thinking...
Yeast Starter, k1v-1116 or D-47
24 hours latermake a must
Blackberry base and 5lbs Fruit (thawned and mashed) in ingredient bag
Pectinase
1.5 pounds Buckwheat honey
6 pounds Blackberry honey
water to 5 gallons
Orangeblossom honey and/or water to 6 gallons and 1.13 O.G
3 grams yeast hulls (just for fun, because i just got them)
Stiring and punching as needed durring krausen in my bucket
After Krausen Remove ingredient bag sqeezing out all juice, Stir well, add bentonite, transfer to primary carboy(s) and airlock. This is a transfer not a racking (keeping yeast and sediment, I'd leave in bucket but i didn't buy fancy lids)
about 4 weeks after transfer to primary, Rack to secondary.
4 weeks into secondary, agitate to stir up sediment, add isenglass, Rack after 2 more weeks to bulk aging.
Fining is something new i'm trying... I had what i thought was a beutifully clear Blueberry mel.... ended up with sediment in the bottles.
