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I'd guesstimate ~2 gallons of plum and ~3 gallons of nectarine. It's probably a little over that, but you'll lose some racking, so it should be about-that much when its finished.

It's usually 10-15lbs of fruit for a gallon, depending on the fruit. Plums and nectarines are probably closer to the 10-12lbs than the 13-15lbs

In an effort to 'climb back on the horse', I decided to clean out some of the fruit in the fridge... Was pretty unsuccessful, honestly. There's all kinds of stuff in there - watermelon, honeydew, blueberries, cherries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, pineapple... 'Bout that pineapple.. I...

... You're two batches ahead of me, Jim. And I dont even have the moving excuse, lol I do have ~24 quarts of honey, a few pounds of blackberries, raspberries and cherries; I just havent got there yet.

I'd go with the 3 gallon batch. 1 quart of honey per gallon 3 quarts of honey is about ~ 9lbs The residual sweetness can be conquered later on, just get it to ferment dry first. Do you know what yeast and nutrients you'll be using?

Are you in the garden, or the cellar?

1st: After the lag phase, yeah. 2nd: Usually at half-way, but if your 3rd addition isnt organic nitrogen (Fermaid-O; so if you're doing 3 additions of Fermaid-K total) then you'd want to do this closer to the 1/3 mark, so that the 3rd addition was at half-way. 3rd: So if this is organic...

No problem at all. Anyone can always PM me about this nutrient / YAN stuff, as well. 1st: Fermaid-K 2nd: Fermaid-K 3rd Fermaid-O This works for most any batch, unless you want to get more particular or are looking for a certain result. The amounts used will change based on the amount of YAN...

I would probably treat it just like you mentioned, ~31 Brix / ~450 YAN. It's all approximations, to get you close enough nutrition-wise that you can feed the yeast without a stuck or funky fermentation. But it still really comes down to that actual fermentation, as they're all a little...

I think.. You're thinking too hard, lol. So, in one of your earlier posts, your math says you need ~19 grams of DAP, ~40 grams of Fermaid-K, or ~100 grams of Fermaid-O, to ferment the ~27 Brix / 350 ppm YAN.. So you'd split this into three additions, at least. So if your first two additions...

Your first question, is a really good way to go about it. But no, you only need to know the amount of YAN you need, to figure out how many grams of which product you're using. Then you're just dividing up those grams. It's almost two different ways to go about the same thing, calculating it...

The YAN levels themselves, can be hard to track down. When it comes to raw fruits, sometimes you can find literature for that particular fruit that will actually give you some rough numbers to go off of - like I remember finding the numbers for YAN levels from highbush blueberries. So in that...

I've yet to make a watermelon myself, but its in the plans; Like Julie noted, I would keep it as cold as your yeast strain will allow while still fermenting without issue - depends on the strain you use. I would also start the yeast culture before you start processing the beginnings of the...

3lbs per gallon / 1 quart of honey per gallon of mead The nutrient depends on which brand and product you're using, we'll need more information for that. If you want a regular honey-flavored mead, it's just honey and water, plus the nutrients and yeast. If you want something with another...

Oh, I'm jealous Rocky! Have a great time, and be safe

Blueberry is one of my favorites. 5-6lbs of blueberries, frozen, then thawed and mashed into a pulp will give you about 1/2-gallon of mush. This will still be cold, so you'll want to dissolve the honey into the water first. 1 quart of honey per 1 gallon of finished mead. I usually use about...

I would go with 10-12lbs of fruit per gallon, and expect to come up a bit short. Quarter the peaches and douse them with lemon juice or an ascorbic acid solution to keep them from browning. Freeze the quartered peaches, then when they thaw, they'll basically mush. No water. Adjust the...

Lemme know if you find something before I do.. Talk about grabbing my attention!

Been a while, but I got those two clear batches - 2013 Apple-Pear Bochet & 2013 Mead - bottled up; And I ordered another 5-gallon bucket / 60lbs of Blackberry Honey; broke it down into quart jars and came out with 21.75 quarts, plus the 2 quarts I had left over off to the right. Gives me 23...

Dragon Blood is Skeeter Pee with fruit added. Skeeter Pee is just the lemon juice, water, sugar, slurry/yeast, and go. Dragon Blood just added some bagged fruit to impact the flavor.. Same thing though.