Bottling Time

This weekend will be all about bottling. I need to bottle the blended dry oaked batch and the orange cinnamon batch. I will also be bottling the mead ale yeast experiment and prepping bottles for shipment.

I tried the dark mead again this last weekend, this time with a partial mash and extract. I got better results, but not as good as I hoped. I did a smaller full AG batch for a lager just before which came out within 2 points of the target, so I know something else is going on. I think it may be the way ProMash is determining the gravity potential of the grains. I used Beer Tools Pro to calculate the same recipe, and it came out very close to where I ended up. This has made me go hrmmmmm...