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Actually orange zeist flavoured mead would be great. making a prunes melomel with the excess of my simple mead......if I had this idea before.......

Well, I know some wineries in the US make orange wines, and in Spain they make tarongino, which apparently is nice. Well, I'll let everything settle for a long time then :-) all I wanted was to avoid adding water to the juice, but I think I'll need to add sugar or it is very weak

Hi, I've seen lot of recipes for citrus wine and they all add lot of sugar i order to lower acidity. I understand that it is not possible to just ferment freshly pressed orange juice as it is too acidic hence there will be need for some adjustment, but rather than just dilute the juice and...

Well, thing is I cannot find any suplier of proper starter culture, the kefir thing is because, although it doe snot contain oenococcus oeni, it contains lot of lactobacilla, now the problem is that kefir would break sugars too, as that's what the yeasts in teh bacteria do, and might turn the...

Hi, I'm thinking to make mead and I'm already brewing a small batch of white wine and vitis labrusca wine, both grown in my backyard. I was thinking to do some malolactic fermentation to my white wine as it was really unripe (London is not the best place to grow a souther mediterranean vine...

I need to check my recipe, but I had I think 80% Pilsner malt, 9% munich malt and 1% crystal. Chekcing the RSM and the percentages the final colour should be ~3.90 but it looks more like an 12 at the moment. yeast is a lager yeast, need to check if thre is anything else written. Sure it comes...

Well, I boiled the whole wort, did a 3 step maching, and now is in the secondary, a glass demijohn.......I'll bottles it next week and then lager it, just as it is quite clear (after using cold crash and irish moss) I was just wondering if it is ever going to get really pale, because as far as I...

I'm a bit confused, I did an all grain batch following a recipe I had made checking the RSM of different grains. The result should be much pale, 3.98, however I've just finished secondary fermentation, racking in a couple of days, and the beer is like a brown ale. It should be a pilsner, so...

Hi, checked in my amazon order history, this is the munich I've used: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K251F7K/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 it says a colour between 15 and 30 EBC which in RSM are 7.62 to 15.24 so possibly if it was 15.24 plus some crystal.....it just may be the the...

OK thanks, I guess next week I'll find out the outcome. I was just surprised because again with the same crystal and pale malts only the wort was really bright. Thanks for your help

Not really sure about what crystal malt I have, I will try to find out but point is I had brewed with th esame crystal and teh same pale malt and the wort and beer were both quite bright. The colour I'm talking about is in both wort and beer, sure the wort was darker than how is the beer now...

HI, I wanted to make a blonde and really bitter beer, so I used the following proportions for the grains: 55% Munich malt 40% pale malt 5% crystal malt I was expecting a really pale wort but it came out really dark, say like a really dark brown ale. I had used in the past just crystal...