RACKINGS!!!! (protect your nuts...)

Tonight, I've been busy remedying small jug's needs.

I had Liz boil a pot of water on the stove eariler this afternoon and leave it sit covered all evening.

I've racked the Cinnamon Maple Mead to another 1 Gal jug with a campden tab and about 2 cups of water to top up and reduce air space in the jug. It's still not quite up to the neck, but it should be OK.

I'm a little worried because after topping it up, I noticed particulate stuff in the water. I'm not sure if it's undisolved campden or something from the pot not being completely clean.

Next I crushed up another campden tablet and disolved it into a 1.75L Jim Beam bottle (lol!) and racked the pineapple wine into it.

Finally I did the same with the Apple / Pineapple into a freshly cleaned 1 gal jug and filled it to almost the top. I still had enough left to fill a 1L fliptop bottle (no campden).

The mead doesn't seem very active after racking. Since it has so much air space in it, I've put a lid on the jug and will check it from day to day to make sure it doesn't build up too much pressure.

The pineapple is still gently bubbling, so I gave it a fresh balloon. The pineapple / apple is bubbling a bit more. Also ballooned. I'll have to watch the 1L glass bottle because of this.

Yay! I now have an empty 2.5gal Mr. Beer thingy to start a lager in!! AND an empty 1Gal jug.