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[Brian72]

The girlfriend and I made another batch yesterday. We just used the basic recipe from Hightests faq for a smaller 3 gallon batch and plan to secondary it on some blueberries. Gravity came in a little under but hit at 1.090 so we should be ok anyway. Our Falls Bounty has been in secondary for a few weeks now and I'm amazed at how much it's cleared up already. Going to transfer it again next week. Cant wait until it's aged a while and drinkable....

[Brian72]

1.090 is respectable. Also, the blueberries will up the gravity too.I love mead!

We really enjoy it too. We went to the store the other night to get a six pack of beer and wound up getting 2 bottles of mead, a cyser and a blueberry mead from a winery in Wisconsin (I think). So smooth and easy to drink. The name of the Winery is White Winter if you're interested. We really liked it.

[armagh]

The girlfriend and I made another batch yesterday. We just used the basic recipe from Hightests faq for a smaller 3 gallon batch and plan to secondary it on some blueberries. Gravity came in a little under but hit at 1.090 so we should be ok anyway. Our Falls Bounty has been in secondary for a few weeks now and I'm amazed at how much it's cleared up already. Going to transfer it again next week. Cant wait until it's aged a while and drinkable....

The blueberries will add fermentable sugar but there is a collateral (and largely unquantifiable) dillution factor from the water in the fruit. A few years ago on the green board there was an extended discussion on this issue.

Edited by armagh, 04 January 2011 - 09:34 AM.

[Brian72]

Took a gravity reading today just for the heck of it and I'm already at half sugar on this one after 4 days. Of course I tasted the sample it it was delicious!!!