Batch 016: Morticia's Hips Don't Lie

First time using rose hips (and petals); they're going in primary in a brewing bag. There'll be rose petals in secondary. We're going to call batch 016 Morticia's Hips Don't Lie, since it's gothy and has rose hips in it.

Ingredients in this batch

• 11.75 oz. blackberry honey from Knappa Nectar.
• 1 lb, 12¼ oz. blackberry honey from Hanna's Honey.
• ½ tsp. each of Valley Brewers yeast nutrient and yeast energizer.
• 2 oz rose hips, in a brewing bag.
• About ⅕ of packet of White Labs WLP720 Sweeet Mead/Wine Yeast.
• Another 92 grams of Hanna's blackberry honey (the remainder of the bottle); added 30 July 2016.
• ½ oz. dried rose petals, in a brewing sock; added 30 July 2016.
• Filtered tap water to one gallon.

Brew date: 17 July 2016.
Bottling date: 11 September 2016.
Yield:

• 8 x 12 oz. bottles
• Total: ¾ gallon.

Poured honey into carboy, measuring out exactly 2½ pounds in the gallon jug, then poured in water to about two-thirds of a gallon. Added yeast nutrient and energizer and agitated for about a minute to mix them, then added water to one gallon and agitated for ten minutes to oxygenate. Pitched the yeast at the relatively high temperature of 87℉. Draped the brewing bag into the carboy mouth, keeping the bag's open mouth outside the carboy's mouth, then pushed rose hips into the bag through the carboy mouth. Tied the bag and dropped it in, then popped in an airlock and filled it with vodka.

Original gravity: 1.102 (correct to estimate of 1.108 due to later honey addition).
Final gravity:: 1.059
Estimated ABV: 6.9%