Hi all,
Now, I'm a complete newbee, and I think some of you mead-lovers will want to shout at me for the way I've tried to make my mead. I basically took a Storm the Castle recipe, got carboys and airlocks, and that's pretty much all the technical equipment I used. All ingredients for my mead were supermarket budget-bought, and there are two batches; one has a couple of squeezes of lime in it.
I've just bottled them, but I think I need to rack them again - in the bottles, they are opaque, and smell and taste yeasty. In fact, there is very little honey taste to speak of. Oddly, of the four bottles of the lime batch, two are yellow (kind of like cloudy apple juice), and another two are a pretty, oaky brown (and are much clearer).
Basically, what's I'm asking is do I need to re-rack them, and is it worth even bothering?
Now, I'm a complete newbee, and I think some of you mead-lovers will want to shout at me for the way I've tried to make my mead. I basically took a Storm the Castle recipe, got carboys and airlocks, and that's pretty much all the technical equipment I used. All ingredients for my mead were supermarket budget-bought, and there are two batches; one has a couple of squeezes of lime in it.
I've just bottled them, but I think I need to rack them again - in the bottles, they are opaque, and smell and taste yeasty. In fact, there is very little honey taste to speak of. Oddly, of the four bottles of the lime batch, two are yellow (kind of like cloudy apple juice), and another two are a pretty, oaky brown (and are much clearer).
Basically, what's I'm asking is do I need to re-rack them, and is it worth even bothering?