Blackberry mead

[Devonhomebrew]

4# Clover Honey
3 handfuls of blackberrys
1 Packet V-23 Red Wine Yeast (to add body to the mead)
2 tsp nutrient (1 in primary 1 in secondary)
1 tsp pectolase (after fermentation)
1 tsp bentonite (after fermentation)

Batch Size : 5L
OG: 1120
FG: 1000
ABV: 15.5%

Add honey and nutrient to warm water in bucket mix up add blackberrys mush with your hands top up to 5L and if not cool let to cool to 20*C add yeast any redwine yeast will do let it ferment for 1 week on the pulp then at the 8th day remove it from primary strain it off the pulp and rack into secondary add extra tsp nutrient to add extra umpth to get those yeasts to ferment to honey some times its hard to ferment mead coz the honey lack nutrients when dry sulphite in your normal way clear your normal way and bottle.

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[iancxx]

now that sound,s (read,s),like a very nice brew to try,if i get my car out the garage early enough i will be out shoping for bit,s,need a bucket etc,
as a complete newbie,can i ask a couple of question,s.
what sise are the 4 jar,s of honey,
what nutrient are you useing,
i was going to start with a wow,but this sound,s so nice,and apeal,s to my taste bud,s,so might as well jump in with both,, :rofl: ,
see what come,s out the other end :hmm: ,
ian

 

[Moley]

Doesn't sound like enough blackberries to me.

Wash the berries first to get rid of any creepy-crawlies (mine get a 10 minute soak in sulphited water), then really you should scald them in the bucket with boiling water to kill off any wild yeasts and smaller bugs before adding your honey, allowing to cool, etc.

Pectolase and bentonite would be more effective if you added them to what you call the primary.

Winemakers would never use terms like primary and secondary, just bucket and demijohn.

By the way, a fruited mead is a Melomel unless you use apples (Cyser) or grapes (Pyment). :geek:


And to Ian: Sorry to nit-pick but I have a reputation to live down to. Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm only trying to help, it's part of my day job and I can't turn it off. Stop putting commas in the middle of words, it's very wrong, but you should put spaces after commas.

Now that sounds (reads) like a very nice brew to try, if I get my car out the garage early enough I will be out shopping for bits, need a bucket etc. As a complete newbie, can I ask a couple of questions:

What size are the 4 jars of honey?
What nutrient are you using?

I was going to start with a WOW but this sounds so nice, and appeals to my taste buds, so might as well jump in with both, :rofl: ,
see what comes out the other end :hmm:

I can't help with the jar size, and was wondering the same myself, but yeast nutrient as sold by homebrew shops and online suppliers is usually a mix of diammonium phosphate and ammonium sulphate. You can also add just a quarter teaspoonful of Marmite to give them some B vitamins.

 

[Devonhomebrew]

the hash tag means lbs thought everyone knew that :wha:
Oh well anyway its a nice colour might put some more blackberrys in next time like moley said