Chocolate Orange Mead - Start to Tasting!

Hello everyone! This is the long-awaited chocolate orange mead I've been promising to make for forever! This video takes you through the ENTIRE process, so I hope you enjoy it!

What I did:
2lb OB honey
Half a packet of Mangrove Jack 05 yeast
2 tsp sweet orange peel
SG: 1.080

Racked & stabilized

Added OJ to taste + 1/4 cup toasted cocoa nibs + 1/8 tsp malic acid & tannin + almost a cup of OB honey
G: 1.024

Removed nibs after 9 days (could have sat longer)

Added 1/2 tbsp sweet orange peel + 1/4 cup toasted cocoa nibs + .16 oz mocha oak chips.

Left for about a week.

Added another 1/2 cup OB honey
G: 1.042
Added sparkloid

BOTTLED!

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