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Tried a flashlight, tried holding it up to the bright sunlight. Blackness. I've made Guinness mead :)

It's been something over eight months. I went low effort and haven't racked it, just topped up the airlock now and again. It's still as black as black. http://i.imgur.com/D0Jxz7p.jpg

Just checked again, and the orange slices have fallen. Just a few raisins still floating (and a lot of yeast rubbish around the top -- stuck to the glass I think). So that probably happened sometime in the last week or so, so 3 months or thereabouts for mine to fall. I will keep waiting...

Thanks! Although I realise now I was hoping you'd say to keep waiting :) because if I rack it with all the fruit still at the top it's going to disturb a lot of lees, isn't it. Edit: I know, providing extra information *after* asking the question is the wrong way around, sorry, but here's one...

I began my JAOM on October 13. It's now Jan 01 (so ~2.5 months), and it's been beautifully clear for a while now, but the fruit hasn't really dropped. Each demijohn has a single raisin at the bottom. Should I just keep waiting? Beginning: Now:

Lots of racking. I only have (imperial) gallon demijohns. If racking to secondary before primary fermentation has finished then the headspace may be ok? Perhaps I'll need to raid the children's marble collection after that, though.

Cold and wet weekend, decided it was time to start this off. I burnt it black, but not quite until the smoke was black -- the wife and children were already making enough protestations with the kitchen full of the smell and white smoke, despite the extractor fan. Took about an hour and twenty...

That's great, thank you. I'm trying to imagine accurately working out 70% of of half a teaspoon though :) I'd only ever done beer before starting the recent meads, and added nutrients were an unknown. Given where I started* (JAOM, like so many people, I think) a small handful of raisins feels...

I'm getting mead obsessed. I have a batch of JAOM and cinnamon apple cyser on the go, and I'll be having a go at this in a few weeks when the weather gets bad enough to keep the bees away. Until then, though a question for the people who have done this: did you use staggered nutrients, or...