sparklynines
I noted this on Bluesky but brew #7 has wrapped up, and the final entry for it is the final entry in my Brew Log #1 little booklet I've used for notes. Coincidentally, one year to the day since the first entry, too.
Oct 30, 2023 at 10:36pmWeb
Show threadsparklyninesOct 30, 2023

This was attempting a peach-flavored mead. After the first fermentation I racked it to a wide mouth and added a couple pounds of sliced, frozen peaches (the frozen helps get the flavor out, as Good Eats fans may remember). Both the first and second fermentations went fucking crazy, and yet took their sweet time about it. There's no way to know for sure how much sugar got sucked out of the fruit but it's a minimum of 13.26%.

Fun fact, "wines" brewed in GA are legally limited to 14%. <cough>

Show threadsparklyninesOct 30, 2023

But at the end, couldn't taste any hint of peach at all. Added a load of artificial sweetener so that I could do a natural carbonation: it got as sweet as I dared, still couldn't taste it, but bottled it with carb drops anyway. Not unpleasant, just not what I was going for.

Celebrating with a nice tall glass of my brown sugar cider, still probably my greatest non-kit success.