Just a quick update (in between work, installing laminate flooring over 1000+ sq/ft, recovering from surgery, and generally being awesome/busy): the cider-mead has been racked!
Not like, stretched out very painfully as a method of torture, but like, siphoned into a big glass carboy.
Behold!
As Tiff said, "It looks way less gross in the glass bottle."
Now we just wait 6-8 weeks, pour it into one more thing (keg or bottles, haven’t decided yet), then pour it into our glasses and or mouths.
Also, obligatory:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Literature and Libation 