donkey
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tried making my first batch of mead and just everything seems to be going wrong on it. after it finished fermenting out it was sour. had an acid reading of around .80. Added 2 tspns of calcium carbonate i believe the stuff was called and let it age another month then added some wine stabilizer let sit for a week racked still had the sour and also a hot alcahol flavor that it has carried out for some time so I figured now would be a good time to sweeten it up a bit. I added 3 lbs of boiled honey to the batch and racked. at this time after adding the honey it was sweet as can be still with the hot alchy flavor though. after sitting for a month took a sample of it and now it taste watered down, very dry, almost no sweet to it but yet still retains some honey flavor ( didn't know you could do that one).
what did I do wrong here?
what did I do wrong here?