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.

Stirring

Stirred all three gallon jugs (Maple Cinnamon Mead and the two pineapple experiments) by circleing jugs on flat surface. Moved ALL fermenters onto table in corner of basement.

I've noticed that the two Pineapple ones aren't super active. The straight pineapple's balloon has some size to it, but the pineapple / apple / raisin one blew up a little bit, and then died back off. Both are still producing visible bubbles at the surface, just not much.

Pulled-a-Recipie-Outta-My-Ass Maple Cinnamon Mead

For Paul and Leigh!

1.5 lbs Fischer's Natural Pure Raw Honey (Walmart) (Darker in color than most)
12.5 fl oz Maple Grove Farms pure maple syrup (Walmart)
approx 1/2 cup Dextrose Corn Sugar
1/2 oz chopped raisins
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 packet bread yeast

Brought honey, syrup, and raisins with three jars of water (one syrup and two honey to wash them out) to a boil.
Broke up cinnamon stick and added at end of boil
Cooled with ice

prepped yeast with a pinch of corn sugar in half a cup of water

Poured yeast and must into gallon jug. Topped up to a gallon with water. Very dark colored.

approx 1.125 Specific gravity