Craft a Brew - Beer Brewing Kits & Supplies on Instagram: "🍎 Want higher ABV hard ciders this fall? Here’s how to pull it off! 1. Frozen apple juice concentrate - our favorite way to boost ABV without obliterating the apple flavor. 2. Sugar - neutral fermentable sugar 3. Demerara - dark, toasty notes 4. Honey - a cider made with honey is called a Cyser. Whenever you make higher alcohol ciders, they tend to taste boozier. Balancing the flavor by backsweetening or adding warm spices can soften th

Craft a Brew - Beer Brewing Kits & Supplies on Instagram: "Ready to make high ABV meads? 1. Use honey OR a non-traditional fermentable sugar like Maple Syrup, Brown Sugar or Molasses. 2. Add extra sugar on Day 1, OR “step feed” your mead by adding sugars after fermentation plateaus to avoid stressing the yeast. 3. Use a yeast with higher alcohol tolerance, like EC-1118. 4. Higher ABV comes with boozier flavors. Create better balance with added tannin or flavors so your mead doesn’t taste like ro

Craft a Brew - Beer Brewing Kits & Supplies on Instagram: "Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is BC 🍻 You may know me as the face of Craft a Brew on social media. But I’ve been homebrewing since 2010, and YouTube-ing since 2018. I’ve written a book on making mead and host one of the largest mead making competitions in the world. Together, Craft a Brew and I are here to help you lean how to ferment your favorite beverages at home. You can find longer format, deep dives on our YouTube. AND I