Secondary question

First time making mead so I had a question. How long should it sit on fruit (plums)? I just racked it into a 6 gallon glass carboy and want to get a good amount of flavor from it. Thanks

Sorry to state the obvious......

Until it tastes right........

Just keep taking a small taste once a week so you can follow the improvement in flavour. Then rack off the fruit when it tastes good to you or the flavour stops changing......

fatbloke said:

Sorry to state the obvious......

Until it tastes right........

Just keep taking a small taste once a week so you can follow the improvement in flavour. Then rack off the fruit when it tastes good to you or the flavour stops changing......

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Will there be any negative effects if he leaves it for a long period of time?

No unless there are pits in the plums. Yet taste really is the only way your going to know when it's at its peak. I taste all my meads about one a week once in secondary.

Meadiator said:

Will there be any negative effects if he leaves it for a long period of time?

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Well there's always the potential for the fruit element to go off too, but that's generally less of a problem as it usually takes months.

Plus as long as the fruit stays moist by "punching down the cap" if its in a bucket or that the liquid level is kept to about an inch or less below a bung or airlock arrangement if in a carboy, then the 2 to 4 weeks which is generally long enough to extract flavour and/or colour is usually fine.