Recent content by Ky-Ale

Today i transferred my brew from the primary to secondary. Unfortunately i noticed i am almost an entire gallon short. Is it alright to introduce more water to the wort this late in fermentation? Should i just finish it off and bottle it a gallon short. If it makes a difference it is a lager...

unfortunately i dont know what variety of hops they are, at least i can trust them to grow in my area however. I will just have to brew with them and see how they are. I can always order a specific variety when i get a good grip on growing hops. I have never brewed with anything other than...

I know of a farm in my hometown in Michigan that has hops growing like crazy all over playground equipment and there barns. I know they do not sell them and I'm almost certain they dont even want the plants there. If i can convince them to let me get the rhizome off the hops growing there i want...

does anyone have a recipe for a Canadian ale or possibly a lager using maple syrup as a priming agent or a flavoring? This sounds really good but i cant find a extract recipe.

also i just looked at the pot again and were the water was its now discolored?

Hi so i finally got my beer kit but am running into a few problems already, for 1 the pot i plan to use for the boil in probably a 5 gallon steel pot from a turkey frying kit, will it cause off flavors due to the oil that was used in it? I had a hard time cleaning it all out. Second of all i am...

so i threw together a quick gallon and fit it with an air lock, its been bubbling like crazy for the past 24 hours and the lock is filled with wine. This is my first try at making wine, should i refill the airlock or just un plug it and cover it with a towel or something?

First time brewer, want to brew up a quick 1 gallon to get a taste of home wine brewing i used to know a guy who brewed with welches concentrate and drank it only a couple months in. Are there any good recipes that only take 3-4 months to be ready to drink? -Thanks

Just want to make a 1 gallon jug of some sweet wine, im thinking banana-peach or i have a pear tree in my back yard that should start producing soon. How long do these kinds of wines take to become drinkable? What is racking, i hear that term a lot among brewers. After it is put in to bottles do...

Me and a buddy are brewing some britsh ale, he wants to bottle the beer today its been in the fermentor sense last saturday so about 1 week, i told him we should rack it into the carboy for a week but hes conviced we should skip the carboy and go straight to botteling. What should we do?

4th day in and the airlock is only releasing gas every 18-20 seconds? I didn't follow the instructions on the back of my ale yeast packet i think it was muntons it wanted me to suspend the yeast in water and then pitch it, my friends dad told me to just toss it in the fermenting bucket and it...