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It has been 6 months, and I have decided to give my mead a taste. It is a mead and cider mix. I smell the alcohol, but after tasting it, it tastes musky. Any thoughts?

So I have made a porter, it took 9 days to ferment. I say 9 because after day 7 it was reading at a constant FG of 1.023. Now I added my priming sugar two days ago, and put them into bottles. Two are not traditional growlers, and the rest are these. Non-Traditional Growler- Link Traditional...

So, I have been told that if I want to build a mead with heavy and copious amounts of sugar to boost alcohol levels, to add it in gradually. That is all fine, and I have been doing that, but curious. How do I set up to measure what the final gravity versus original gravity is? How can you...

Has anyone here made brandy? What are your recommendations for yeast and recipes?

So, I have made a 7 gallon batch of mead. Now, the problem is that the alch content of the mead when it was completed was only about 6%abv, very very low. I realized it may have been due to a couple of things. A) Hurricane Sandy getting my house below 30 degrees when I lost complete...