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Was just wondering how long something can sit on yeast before that process kicks in

I brewed a nut brown ale last week and by Friday all fermentation seemed to be finished judging by hydrometer samples but I'm not gonna be home again till next Friday. Should my beer be fine sitting on the lees or should I stay up late and bottle it. I gotta get up at 2:00 am for a 3.5 hr...

I'm. At the local brew pub and the guy next to me orders a miller light, wtf? But I don't try to educate him cuz he is intent on it's the only beer with triple hops in it. Lol. I'm also finding myself wanting to ask my server about malto dextrin and stuff I'm sure she has no idea

To prime a gallon of cider?

Hi all, I brewed my first beer last Monday a pretty basic hefe recipe using the wyeast 3068 strain. On Tuesday we had a heat wave and my ac wouldn't work so it got up to 83 degrees in the house for a day or so and I've got it cooled back down to about 68 in the fermenter since then. I have no...

I have some frozen blackberries and I want to make a one gallon batch just because I can. how many pounds of berries should I use? thanks for your help!

I am fermenting sugar water with nutrient and energizer with red star champagne yeast as an experiment. I should get an abv of 12% if it goes dry. I was thinking about adding root beer flavoring but then my mind started wandering. Is there anything else I could flavor this with possibly cut it...

So I'm a root beer lover and I really want to make a hard root beer. So my idea was to make an alcoholic beverage by fermenting sugar water with yeast nutrient and red star champagne yeast. That's going good fermenting like crazy. Now once that's fermented out I was thinking of adding an...

So I got a wild hair and decided to make a mead this is my recipe 8 lbs clover honey 2 lbs light agave nectar Two quarts smuckers concord grape jam 1 gallon warm water to dissolve filled five gallon fermenter to about 4.5 gal with no sugar added apple juice Added pectic enzyme and pitched red...

So I made a wine with concord grape jam and concord grape juice and it's in the secondary now with a gravity reading of 1.01 it tastes really good but is quite flowery. Not what I expected but quite good is this normal? I'm really only used to home made country wines and sweet reds from a...

Was just wondering if anybody had ever used agave nectar instead of sugar to make wine

Sorry I'm sure there is a thousand threads on this but I can't get the search function to work very good but I'm just wondering how long to leave wine on toasted oak chips. And how to toast my own chips and any other advice you might have on oaking wine. Thanks!!

I've got a batch of grape juice wine going and it's been in the primary for a week or so still getting some bubbles. My question is when do I switch it over to my secondary Carboy? Thanks for any help

Just made my first batch of cider and I'm wondering if it will blow up my bottles. It is very dry and about 18% also I was wondering about the process of back sweetening