Preparing for another small batch of Frankenwein here. Classic "better use up this glut of fruity stuff before it goes bad" approach, rather sad apartment living styley! 😁
Neither one of us remembered to eat up that remaining pack of blueberries from the cake preparations, but they're still fine. I just gave them a wash and popped them into the freezer to help them let out all their juicy goodness later. (Which is admittedly minimal, with that small amount of berries. But, why not.) I am also the main one who eats jam around here. He doesn't dislike it or anything, just rarely buys jars himself and forgets it's there. So, probably better to get the rest of that jar of raspberry-blueberry stuff from the cake out of the fridge before it starts growing things.
The other leftover component: the remaining 300ml of that raspberry juice drink concentrate that I used to doctor up the previous Disaster Wine. It's sat in the fridge since then, and he hasn't drunk any of it. (Too sugary for my insulin-deficient ass to swill unless I do ferment it out first.) So, I'm calling the stuff fair game for experimentation now. Remove the temptation, and it should combine pretty well with the other fruity stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Especially after that Disaster Wine experience, the current plan is to mix everything up and then be sure to grab a SG reading BEFORE adding any extra honey or anything!
I did play around with that handy batch calculator again, but I still don't trust myself not to have fucked up some arithmetic before getting that far. Particularly with the workarounds required to enter some ingredients reasonably in what is designed as a mead calculator. (How much total sugar is really in that volume of drink concentrate, according to the rather wackily expressed label info? 🤔 And so on.) Still, much better than trying to work everything out manually under the influence of dyscalculia, but yeah. Better run some extra sanity checks along the way.
Still haven't quite decided whether to try working a cup of tea into the recipe for a touch of tannins, but at least that shouldn't affect any of the numbers! 🥴
