I am looking at doing a peach mead, but I think I may have some of my proportions in my recipe wrong. Looking for a little bit of help here. I'd like it to be semi sweet with the option to bump it a bit further with back sweetening if needed. I have loads of frozen peaches from our family tree. I have never worked with fruit, so this is more or less starting with a standard mead recipe and adding in the fruit.
5 gallon batch
-18lbs of honey
-2 packs of 71B rehydrated with 12g of GoFerm Protect
-Fermaid O staggered nutrient additions
-10lbs of peaches in the primary
-stabilize
-15lbs of peaches in the secondary
-bourbon soaked oak cubes in secondary
Am I missing something here that I haven't thought about? Honestly I have a level of ignorance with the fruiting in mead. I have done it in beer, but that is a different beast.
5 gallon batch
-18lbs of honey
-2 packs of 71B rehydrated with 12g of GoFerm Protect
-Fermaid O staggered nutrient additions
-10lbs of peaches in the primary
-stabilize
-15lbs of peaches in the secondary
-bourbon soaked oak cubes in secondary
Am I missing something here that I haven't thought about? Honestly I have a level of ignorance with the fruiting in mead. I have done it in beer, but that is a different beast.