/ck/ - Food & Cooking

What are you brewin', /ck/?

I'm recovering from second degree burns from making bochet (burnt honey mead). I also have a batch of red kit wine going.

Why no /bru/ thread, /ck/? What are some recipes that you have tried and liked? What do you typically use as a sanitizer? I haven't done any beers, but homebrew beer discussion is welcome.
I'm planning on making a mead and was wondering if anyone had had any experience in using brown sugar as opposed to honey and would know what kind of results I could expect. I did read that beer brewers will sometimes add it to increase the alcohol content of their brews, but I just happen to have a lot of the stuff on hand. I was hoping to do that with some backyard peaches, my town used to be orchard back in the day so there are weird semi wild fruit trees all around and the ones in my backyard are mostly like peaches but they might have some apricot or something them, idk but they're better than anything anyone's ever sold me. So yeah, homebrewin' thread.

How do you homebrew hard cider, assuming you have the equipment (glass jugs, airlocks, etc.)?