urbandryad

I started the rose petal mead not too long ago, and had a blowout (I had been avoiding buckets as primaries because I scratch the hell out of them).

I knew I liked this mead, so I twinned it into two 6gal carboys, leaving one on the rose petals and pulling the other off, so I wasn't trying to divide the petals evenly or anything like that. My primary had the sarsaparilla in it at the time, so that was out of the question. I figured I'd let the mead run until I got the sarsaparilla out of the primary, then I could start up a "new" batch in the primary using the stuff I took off the rosepetals as a giant starter, and top up the other one somewhat further from the top.

That is what I did.

So now I have two 6gals of the rosepetal mead going, one on the rosepetals and one that had sat on petals for a week and then I racked it off and topped it up with more honey. Otherwise the recipes are pretty much the same.

I'm really enjoying that sweet mead yeast, and giving some thought to maybe using the yeast cake from one of these for my next batch of something - maybe a much lighter, quick, carbonated mead. Or maybe I should use a beer yeast for that. Or maybe I should steep some grains in it and make a light quick braggot?

Anyhow, I've got two sorta-progressive/sorta-primary rosepetal meads going on right now. http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/kellys-rose-petal-mead