The Bees' Knees Mead©

Ah yes, I bet you had forgotten about this sleeping beastie. Bottled everything up today. I got 28&1/2 short brown 12oz with plain golden crowned of the cyser and 10 “Anchor" and 13 "Grolsch" style bottles of the vanilla cyser. FG ended up at 1.006+0.001 @69F. This yields about 16.9%abv for both. One thing I noticed is that on the rack prior to bottling, the vanilla seemed to be slightly lighter in color. Did the vanilla beans have anything to do with it? Either way I have already gotten everything ready for my next mead batch and have started pricing jumbo blackberries and Michigan cherries for the next batches.