> I have just started brewing my own beer and wine. I have made so
>> rather odd concoctions the process. Some of the wine tastes good,
>> some bad, and some like there is no alcohol at all. I want to
>> know how I can figure the alcohol content of a drink. Does anyone
>> know a home method of measuring alcohol content?
> Set some bottles of it out by the nearest homeless shelter. If the
> residents come out and start drinking it, you've got a winner!
Fotunately I had my mug in my left hand when I read this. So when the Mead spat out of my mouth, it went into the mug and not into the keyboard. I've cleaned a keyboard of beer and wine, but Mead would be a sticky mess.
A pox upon your house - may your next batch taste somewhere between Steel Reserve Malt Liquor and Chateau Mad dog and may your next lover be a New York Yankee fan who drinks T.J. Swan.
Dick