Ingredients:

• 6 lb fresh picked mulberries
• 5 lb snowberry honey
• 3 lb corn sugar
• 2 cups raisins- chopped
• 2 tsp sodium-bisulfate
• Pris-de-Mouse yeast

Directions:

• Pick through berries, remove leaves, grubs...etc.
• Process berries.
• Add hot water to honey to dissolve.
• Add sugar and processed raisins.
• Mix processed berries and sugar mix.
• Add sodium-bisulfate (campden), mix well and leave overnight.
• Next day, add water to bring up to 5 gallons.
• Pitch yeast (7/1/93).
• Racked a couple of times.
• Bottled on 9/2/93 with ¾ cup corn and demererra sugar (mixed).

Notes:

My girlfriend has a tree outside her house. Birds eat the fallen berries, become intoxicated and get hit in the road. So I thought I should remove some of the berries, save a couple birds. They were deep purple to red. The mead tasted good at bottling. It slowly became sparkling, and now is like a light sparkling burgundy. Quite fruity, but has a wine-like quality. It is fairly dry, but does have a berry-sweetness I find very enjoyable. It cleared beautifully, and has a deep red color, but easy to see through. The thing that surprised me was how good it was young. I rarely have meads taste good young (see grapefruit recipe!), but this one did!

Specifics:

• OG: 1.070
• FG: 0.990

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