It took much, much longer than I had planned to just empty a container so that I could put the spiced beer into a total of 3 kegs.  This past weekend, I finally drew the final glass of beer from my orange-coriander beer.  With three empty kegs, one from Thanksgiving, one that I had to dump, and finally this one. I made sure to clean and sterilize the kegs and run the cleaner through the outlet on each of them.

It was an unfortunate turn of events for the one keg I had to dump out, and if it happens again, I will have to completely replace parts of it, since the beer had turned to vinegar with odd things in it.  I never figured out what it was, either.

I filled two of the kegs to the top, and put the rest of the beer into the third keg.  The third keg being the one that had issues last time.  This way, if I lose anything, I would only lose 2-3 gallons of beer.  The other two kegs were filled to have 4.5-5 gallons in them and I carbonated them all to at least 12psi.  I may consider going higher once I get a better test.

I taste tested it today, and it's very much like the one I had at Thanksgiving.  It's a little out of date since it is a spiced beer, but it's not one that I want to try to keep until next winter.  I will taste it again tomorrow to define the taste, since it is likely to not taste the same once I give it time to settle and to let the any yeast settle out.

Once the carboys were washed and sterilized, I then decided to rack the cranberry mead.   Apparently I didn't use enough water because there was 1/2 a gallon of space in the carboy that I had to use the plain mead I made last July to finish filling the carboy to the top.  

Another oddity persisted, and that seems to be that I either brought a lot of yeast, or I brought unfermented honey over to the carboy.  The liquid was pretty viscous at the end and it could be from either situation.  However, the measurement taken shows that the racked liquid before addition was 1.018.  I'll taste test this tomorrow, since I put the glass into the fridge to try to drop the yeast out.  I may have to find a different clarifier, and I may also have to find out if it's really sugar that is remaining.