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I have been meaning to get the wine off the berries for a few days now and finally got it done tonight. I didn't make an effort to drain the berries and ended up with probably 4 gallons in the secondary. I drank a part of a glass and it is good, but like said above a slight off taste that I...

I have a batch of blueberry wine that was 23.5 pounds of blueberries and 12 pounds of sugar for about a 6 gallon batch. The starting gravity was 1.136 and now 3 weeks later it is 1.034. Beersmith tells me it is 13.5% ABV. The berries are still in the primary fermentator and the taste is pretty...

I have a batch of 5 gallons of cider that I want to add brown sugar to and keg. Do I add the crushed campden tabs (5 of them), brown sugar and dump it all in the keg and drink once carbonated. Or does there need to be additional steps in between. Also, what risk is there of this...

What happens if it is left in there too long?

Two questions in one, any issues with dry hopping in the keg? I think I have heard of people doing it and as long as it is in a good mesh container the hops shouldn't clog the beer line. Basically I forgot to dry hop but really would like to have the beer in the keg in the next day or two...

It should be 1.123, 14 pounds of dry extract.

One more try.

I live near Ashland and go to school in Akron. I have a mega barley wine recipe with 14 pounds of extract and am wanting to use oxygen for this. Does anyone have an O2 setup I could borrow for this?

I got some excellent advice in the past on this forum so now my question is what do you reccommend for an electric coffee grinder? I used a manual one time which instantly cured me of my desire for a manual one. I really don't know all that much about them but do know I want a burr grinder, I...

I've smoked cheese in my gas grill in the winter, one or two charcoal briquets thrown in wood chips and put in one side of the gas grill and the cheese in the other. I leave the cover on the grill and at 20 to 30 degrees the grill would get up to 60 to 70 degrees. Just realize the next thing you...

Im looking for cast iron pans and want to know what some good brands are. I checked out walmart and they had lodge logic pans and didn't like the interior surface, it seemed pretty rough.

I picked up some camden tabs to kill off the yeast so the brown sugar I add will not fermentate. Doing some reading it sounds like camden tabs only prevent yeast from multiplying, rather than killing it off. Im not really sure just what I need to do from here. Any suggestions?

I have an image in GIMP that has a black on white edge and it is very obviosly pixalated. How do I throw in shades of grey to smooth it out so it doesn't look pixalated?

I haven't noticed anthing to do with sun exposure and my symptoms but it is something I will pay attention to.

I grew up drinking it, from age 3 to about 15. Every once in a while the cows would eat some leeks (wild onions) and the milk would taste like it so we would drink store bought milk. We couldn't wait to go back to the regular stuff. I actually found a source for it a few years ago but the farmer...