Got time to do some bottling today. Dont have much at all. Just 3 gallons of the Orange Ginger mead. I wanted to put half in 12 oz and half in 22 oz, but i remembered I gave all my 12 oz away. But a quick trip to the House of Homebrew and we are back in business.
Once we got everything racked into the bucket, we of course can start sampling. I was kinda expecting it to be pretty dry, but it was not. pretty sweet, and I’d have to say just the right amount of ginger, but maybe could stand some more orange.
A quick reading and it looks like we are sitting at 1.012 or a tad less. So that with the OG of 1.064 puts us at about 6.8%. Thats not so bad for only 6 lbs in 3 gallons.
I already see that I am gonna hafta step the batches up. This stuff is pretty good, and those few bottles aint gonna last long. I dont see any reason to change this recipe other than bumping it up to 5 gallons and maybe a a bit more honey to the ratio.
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