Racking the mead.

On November 24, 2012, I racked my first batch of mead.  Racking--as noted elsewhere in this blog--is the process of removing the liquid and leaving behind most or all of the sediment (or yeast cake).  Below is the aquarium tubing that I used.  Next time, I would try to get larger-bore tubing as the aquarium tubing took a long time to siphon the liquid.

The mead will be put into a new and clean container for more fermenting.  See below for my siphoning set-up.

As noted elsewhere, the mead should be ready in about June, 2013 or so...