A while ago, I expressed my desire to make a strong, still braggot -- a kind of mead that you make by fermenting honey and malted barley together. I'd meant to do it that weekend, but then some of my friends said they wanted to make mead with me, and they ended up wanting to do it last Friday. So, I went and started my braggot that day, but I also started three other meads (all of them in 1.5 gallon fermenters).1 The braggot was the simplest. I'd meant to put in 1.25 pounds of dark dry malt extract and...