Batch 154: Tequila-Barrel Solera Mead
Putting a gallon of solera mead over some tequila-barrel chips that we've been carting around for a while.
Ingredients in this batch
- Approx. 1 gallons solera mead, mostly fermented.
- ½ oz. dried tequila-barrel chips from the homebrew supply store..
- approx. ⅕ packet Super Kleer, added on 9 August 2019.
Procedure
Sanitized a one-gallon carboy. Weighed and dropped in chips. Pumped mead over them. Popped on a stopper and filled an airlock.
Secondary fermentation began: 20 March 2019.
Bottling date: 30 September 2019
Final gravity: 0.998.
Estimated ABV: Approx. 13%.
Yield:
- 7 x 500mL wine bottles
Total: 3.5 liters.
Observations
- 2019-08-09: Added approximately one-fifth of the first packet of Super Kleer to the carboy.
- 2019-09-30: Bottled, yielding three and a half liters of mead.