White Cran Peach Mead

I have decided to blog my recipes when I brew, being notoriously bad about writing them down.  Below is what I used for mead batch #17, brewed on 1/2/10.  I “only” had three packets of yeast, the usual amount for one batch, but I made two batches that day so I had to use half for each.  I really like the taste of this juice, and wanted to see what type of mead it would make.  My prediction:  yummy.  The peach really comes out in the juice, and is balanced by the cranberry.  As with juice blends like this one, grape juice is the first-listed ingredient, so this mead will be pyment+melomel = pymomel.

12 lbs honey (Mrs. Crockett’s from Costco)
2.5 gallons Ocean Spray White Cran*Peach juice (6 64 oz jugs)
1/2 tsp Irish moss
1.5 packets Lalvin 71B-1122 dry yeast
1 tsp yeast nutrient
1/2 tsp yeast energizer

Heat honey plus 1 gallon of water at 150 F for 20 minutes.  Skim the scum & add Irish moss at 15 minutes.  Cool down and add to juice to make 5 gallons.  Aerate and then pitch yeast plus nutrient and energizer.

This had an OG of 24.4 Brix, possibly due to an over-use of water.  It made up around 5.5 gallons.  The Brix OG converted into 1.103 specific gravity via this calculator.  Despite using less yeast than usual, this mead started quickly and is happily bubbling along.

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