hi, im tryiong to make my first melomel, and i have some doubt problems, i got my raspeberries for the melomel, but this ones are pretty hard to find in my country since they dont grow in here, so they are quite expensive i got only 2.5 pounds for a light raspberry melomel about 12% ABV, but when i bought the first batch a week ago i notice that some of the berries had some moldy white stuff on them so i toss them away i did the worse mistake, i used my food saver to seal the bag, the vacumm pressed the berries and made them liquid so if i missed some moldy raspberries it will be hard to tell, so i dont want to loose them nor i want to risk at use them the way they are, so how could sanitazed them?
i was thinking on unfrost them then toss them with some cheap vodka, for about 24 hour then freeze them again and when i put it on the must i can put some Potassium metabisulfide on the must wait the 24 hours then pitch the yeast, so, do you think i can save the raspberries or im doomed to lost this batch?,
they are quite expensive this 2.5 pounds cost about 70 USD while the gallon of raw honey cost me only 30 USD. so i wouldnt like to have an infection on the mead