Correction
They were 2 x 1 gal batches with 3kg or somewhere near 6lb of honey between them.
The second I think was 1150 not 1115, but I'll check when I get home.
Re melomels
I'm keeping one as a show and one racking as a melomel. Of all my batches. This is for comparison reasons. So I can work out what I want.
I discovered ripe boysenberries so picked them all, finding I had 200g / 1 litre. I thought this a good medium flavour when using ken schramm's guide for raspberry quantities.
The colour change was amazingly quick.
Fermentation continued (well bubbling did) but at a slower rate to the non melomel racking.
The show mead is still bubbling this morning, but the melomel appears to have inverted the process, and drew the water in the lock so as to suggest negative pressure. It's not much(8mm H2O) but certainly not positive pressure.
Is this normal or something to worry about.
All the fruit began floating too.
I washed the fruit to remove leaves, spider webs etc, then rinsed in metabisulphate (or whatever it is)
Thoughts?