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Hey everybody, It's been a while since I've posted. I've been quite busy lately. I'm planning a wild blackberry/wild grape wine here within the next few hours, to the next few days depending on when I can get to it. This will be my very first major all fruit wine and I want to make sure to...

Hey everyone. I'm building my own wort chiller out of some copper tubing generously donated to me. It had silicone in the very end of the tube to prevent water from getting in when it was installed before being trimmed off. The silicone has been removed from the outside and the inside has been...

Hey everyone. I've been doing a lot of research on beer making in the last several months and I finally decided what direction I would like to go with when I make my first beer. But I need a little help, I would suspect that it would behoove me to begin with extract brewing, and I agree with...

I've made several wines on my own over the last few years as practice. Only recently though have I been using fresh all fruit ingredients. While visiting family in PA my aunt wanted to get into winemaking. So we made a wine together as a teaching experiment. The recipe we used is as follows...

Hey everyone. I've been looking into natural brewing and while I was doing some research, a though occurred to me. Now I know that this is an odd thought, and I do not plan on doing this by any means. But yeast requires a lot of nitrogen, otherwise you get a lot of fusel alcohols. If brewing...

Hey everyone. I decided to get my brew journal up here finally. On May 3rd 2012, I picked up 25 lbs of dark honey from my local apiary. I began working on the must later that night. I found a good recipe that I've been wanting to work on for months now...

Hey all. I am making a 6 gallon batch of vanilla mead. My recipe calls for 25 lbs of dark honey in two stages, which is a total of a little over 2 gallons of honey. It also says to add 5 gallons of water. It also says that it makes 6 gallons. Am I to assume that I take 12 lbs and 5 gallons first...

Hey everyone. I'm new to the forums but I hope to change that soon. This is my first major brew. I've done mostly very simple wines to get the hang out of fermenting. I've done a lot of research and study about the process but nothing beats experience, and that's why I'm here to meet all of...

Hey everyone. My name is Jamie and I'm the newest guy. I've been making extremely simple wines over the last year, slowly going into more adventurous stuff. I mean reeeeally simple wines, my first experiment was a grape blueberry/cherry grape juice mixture with bread yeast in a one gallon...