From here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mead/comments/cw82wt/cherry_moscow_mule_mead_recipe/

I had cherries looking for a home, and I am low on session stuff so I whipped up a 15 gal batch from my post.

Cherry Moscow Mule

WIP

(by /u/Stormbeforedawn)

Total Volume: 15 gallon

Style: Spiced Melomel

Carbonation: None

Target Original Gravity: 1.041

Target Final Gravity: 1.010

Ingredients

Method

1. 1 hour boil with ginger in a bag with half of the water. This extracts ginger flavor without overdoing tannins.

2. Add frozen cherries and lime zest to bucket with ginger water. The cherries are a little suspect so I didn't allow the must to cool. Will nuke any nastiness with the heat.

3. Add pectinase

4. Froze lime juice for secondary.

5. Rehydrate yeast at 105F with goferm.

6. Pitch after 1 hour.

7. Add half fermO and all fermK at 24 hrs, aerating heavily at start and every 12 hours

8. At 48hrs add remaining FermO, final aeration.

9. Add lime juice post ferment.

10. Backsweeten and sterile filter after 30 days, keg and serve

Additional Notes:

My OG came in at 1.049, which is higher than expected. I think I should have measured the OG of the ginger water, it was cloudy and I suspect it has some suspended solids/sugars/fuckknowswhat that effected my OG reading.

Processing the ginger took about an hour, and the same for the limes. Having the right tools is key. Use a spoon to remove the ginger husk, and a paring knife for any difficult bits. Load into the food processor and then bag. Super painless.

The limes I did something new (for me)

NSFW I guess? No shirt Auto zester

TLDR, I shoved a 3/4 spade bit in the ass end of the limes after trimming a little off the ends like you can see in the vid. Make sure the spade engages the far end or it may spin in the fruit. Then I took a zester and applied it to the lime between my fist and finger. this allowed me to get good control over the pressure. Too much and it binds, too little and it doesn't cut. Set the drill on low gear let the drill do all the work. Each lime took only a few seconds really, most the time was spent juicing and prepping the fruit.