Soooo.... me and a friend of mine are newbie mead makers. So we decided to make Joe's Ancient Orange exactly to the recipe. 2 five gallon jugs of it.
Everything was going nicely we made the Mead last November. We left the mead alone and forgot about it, checked it occasionally and.... welll... the oranges only completely dropped about 8 weeks ago. If ran short on time over the summer so we last checked the mead 4 weeks ago and all looked fine. Today we went to rack the mead and the oranges we're green and kinda gross at the bottom.
We racked it to the secondary so I got a taste from it. It has a amazing smell, decent initial taste but a pretty strong sour after taste. It's really not that pleasant. Also there's the small concern the green oranges might mean the batch is bad... I drank a little and I'm not dead yet so that's a good sign I guess.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about adding fresh oranges to the secondary for a few weeks without the rinds to sweeten it up a little?
Thanks!
Everything was going nicely we made the Mead last November. We left the mead alone and forgot about it, checked it occasionally and.... welll... the oranges only completely dropped about 8 weeks ago. If ran short on time over the summer so we last checked the mead 4 weeks ago and all looked fine. Today we went to rack the mead and the oranges we're green and kinda gross at the bottom.
We racked it to the secondary so I got a taste from it. It has a amazing smell, decent initial taste but a pretty strong sour after taste. It's really not that pleasant. Also there's the small concern the green oranges might mean the batch is bad... I drank a little and I'm not dead yet so that's a good sign I guess.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about adding fresh oranges to the secondary for a few weeks without the rinds to sweeten it up a little?
Thanks!