Recent content by Chambers

so i just finished some mid terms, decided to crack open my carboy which has been sitting around for the passed 3ish weeks and see whats up i used 5 liters of canned apple juice, threw in around around 2 cups of brown sugar some tablet stuff. not sure if it is supposed to still be really really...

actually i didn't use yeast nutrient this time, i forgot to pick up the nutrient and decided i would make a batch without and see what it is like.

so this weekend I went to a local u brew and got some stuff and got some apple juice with no preservatives in it. I decided just for a test run i would only make about 1 gallon just to see if it works and to familiarize myself a little better with what is going on. so i got a question. I have...

Can I use normal cooking sugar to raise the alcohol level of the wine, or is there special brewing sugars I would use, or brown sugar, or is it really all personal preference. Also many of the recipes I read call for some enzyme, and yeast nutrient, are these absolutely necessary for the...

hi everyone! I am new to this hobby, I am a university student who recently had the pleasure of backpacking around the eastern provinces of Canada and got obsessed with microbrewed / brewpubs / homebrewed beverages and have decided to try it out myself. so I decided on some wine as my first...