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I need a little help. We have concord grapes and we normally make grape juice from them but I want to make some wine with them this year. We live in Lancaster PA and I am not sure when to pick them. I think we picked at the correct time (we have only been in the house for 3 years) but I am not...

I recently brewed a Kolsch (WLP029 German Ale/ Kölsch Yeast) and it took forever to start fermenting but it is moving now. We have an apple tree out back and we are planning to make a bunch of applesauce and I know there will be leftovers. Anyone ever put apples into secondary with a kolsch. I...

So I made a batch of Kolsch because my yeasts due date was up Sept 30. I made the beer on Oct 1 and put the yeast in yesterday- it has not done a thing yet and I have looked inside and nothing has happened. Is my yeast bad? Can I just buy another Kolsch yeast and pitch that??

I made a mead from 12 lbs of honey. I used a montrachet yeast packet. I think my mead came out very dry. I know it has a high alcohol content because I feel a nice buzz by drinking one glass. I did not take a OG reading (I was a novice at the time) but I know the gravity reading was 1.001 prior...

I made a mead last October and I did a bunch of things wrong. It was my first mead and I have learned a lot since it happened. I was basically a homebrewer and decided to try something different. I used 12lbs of honey and then hand picked all the seeds out of 6 pomegranates. Unfortunately, I...

I have 2 sour cherry trees in my back yard that have beer written all over them. I am sure I could get at least 30-40 lbs of cherries off the trees. Do any of you know a good 5 gallon extract (not at the all-grain level yet) recipe with sour cherries? I am hoping to get a few recipes that...

I created an ale using my own recipe for the first time. It is hoppy with an ABV of about 6. I used corn sugar to carbonate and it has been 1 1/2 weeks in a bottle. I tasted some the other day and it was not that carbonated. I have tasted a few of my other ones after a week and carbonation was...

I am from the Lancaster Harrisburg area of PA and found a new love. Cooking was a prior love of mine that now has a little more science involved. I just finished a batch of ale that was a little watery at 3.7% but it is not bad. I am going to bottle some lager tomorrow that has been sitting for...

I am currently brewing my second batch of lager. I started it at room temperature. I saw krausen starting to form so I put in the garage at 50 degrees. It has been there for 2 days yet no bubbles are being shown in the air lock. I peaked in today and saw that the krausen is probably 3-4 inches...

I need some help. I started my first batch (5 gallon) of mead Nov. 12. I used one gallon of honey and 6 pomegranates. I just put it into a 2nd fermenter 2 weeks ago. I tasted some and it has a distinct alcohol taste (used Montrachet yeast) but was a little yeasty and cloudy. What should I do...