Pillage & Plunder Meads

Holy Honey. Sara and I purchased 60 lb of Florida Wild Flower honey on Saturday! and Sunday we brewed up 10 gal of two different varieties of Mead. We made two batches of "Braggot" to be exact (mead with malt). Since this is the stuff Vikings used to drink, I had to come up with a suitable name for them... so the first one is called "Pillage" and the second one is "Plunder." Here's the basic recipe and the differences below:

Fermentables:
10.5 lb. Honey
1 lb. Light DME
1/2 lb. Wheat Malt Extract

Single Infusion Mash:
DME was boiled for 45 min before adding honey and bringing the total volume up to 5 gal. A handful of coriander seeds was also added to the boil.

Yeast:
1 Day starter of ... I forget.

Predicted Original Specific Gravity:
1.098

Notes:
Ok, two batches were brewed up, 5 gal each. For one batch we added about 4 handfuls of Crystal 120 and two handfuls of Special B to a mini mash which was added to the honey before bringing the volume up to 5 gal.

For the other batch, we left it as is, but after about a month of fermentation we plan to add some citrus fruits, probably a lot of peach with some lemon, orange and possibly some grapefruit. I'll edit the post when we do this and specify exactly what we add when the time comes.