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    Grains life span.

    Hello brewer i have a small question about how long can i storage milled grains? i already milled 5 kg of malts to make a porter and another 4.5kg to make a altbier, this was about 4 months ago, they are stored in a sealed plastic bag since i milled. are this malts still good to make good...
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    Black tea for color?

    hello fellas i have a quick question, has anyone used black tea in a cider? my plan is to add more color to my cider, right now i have a one gallon jug fermenting of just apple juice and sugar SG-1070 i was planing to make a 5 day sweet cider but normally it become a light yellow color cider...
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    Sparkling mead how much Honey

    hello fellas just a quick question, im about to bottle 10 liters of dry show mead i want to make it sparkling, how much honey i have to add to make a nice Fizzy mead. :tank:
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    hop when to add?

    hello fellas this weekend will be a brewend XD i still making experiments with new recipes this time i want to add hops in my dry sparkling recipe, but the last time i have a bad experience i use cascade hop that end in a grass flavor i add the hops in primary, now have 1oz of Chinook hops...
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    difference between Hydromel and Mead

    Hello fellas right now im trying to find "My" recipe and im experimenting with new ingredients like peppermint, mint, ginger, lemon zest, ETC. but i have a big question, right now my recipes start with 1.055 SG so the ABV is between 5-6%; my Show sparkling dry "mead or hydromel" is amazing...
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    still mead or sparkling mead, whats you favorite?

    Hello people this post is only to make a little poll, how do you prefer to drink your mead? Still or sparkling mead? for my taste i prefer the sparling mead, the sweet golden drinking with a little fizz to make it a refreshing drink to enjoy while playing videogames or whatching a TV serie...
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    Help for the perfect hopps

    Hello friends im working in find "my recipe" i want to do a dry hopped mead, kind like a "ligh beer" flavor i will do an experimental 1 gallon batch to make this hydromel like 7-8% ABV. but i never use hopps in mead or table wines i brew, what kind of hop i need to use to get a citrus but...
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    Help About OG and FG.

    Hello Friends im a very noob person in mead making at this moment i was only doing experiments with mead and homebrews whit out any gravity reading, i just buy an hidrometer and i want to know what Original Gravity i need to make a very low ABV mead. i want to try to do a 5%-6% ABV sparkling...
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    Mead homebrew book.

    Hello meadmakers i have a little experience doing mead and cider but i want to do the next step doing a more "serious" mead. can you please recomend to me a good book for begginers in mead homebrew? thanks a lot for your help.
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    Carboys, Plastic vs the mighty glass

    hello people im here whit a new question, i started my first batch of Beer two weeks ago, i use a platic carboy because i cant find a nice and brand new glass carboy, all the one i found was used and with a lot of scratches so i buy a platic one. now i just read the "broken Glass Carboy...
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    Fermentation question

    Hello i have a noob question about beer, right now im brewing my first batch of beer i have 5gallons of Brown Ale fermenting in a carboy, the first 24 hours of fermentation were amazing high with a lot of foam in the carboy, the next day the activity in the airlock comes to almos 0 bubbles...
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    do i have make a big mistake?

    hello brothers yesterday i make mi first batch of all grain beer, a try to make a brown ale from scratch, one of my first big mistake was leave the grain macerate alone i put them in a Igloo cooler the temperature of the water was 71c° i then i have to go to the shop with my wife, wen i come...
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    Cheers from Mexico

    Hello HBT im going to introduce myself, im from Mexico very close to the border of Texas, right now im a cider fan and i will try meads in some time, the biggest problem for my is to get the yeast for brewing here in my country are very dificultt to found, i normally buy my yeast from a brew...
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    yeast cake question.

    hello brothers i will bottle one galon jug of cider today or tomorrow, and i have a question, can i use the same yeast cake to ferment a mead? i will try to take off all the liquid of the cider and then put this ingredients: 3 pounds of honey water to fill the jug yeast nutrients what...
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    víla mo, Apple Beer!

    HEllo people im going to create this post to write to you the process i made to brew my favorite drink so far, i call it "víla moč" is pronunced Vuila Much o Fairy urine in english :D i have two variables of the recipe one is for a sweet cinnamon taste great for a digestive drink or...
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    Room Temperature for LALVIN K1V-1116 YEAST

    Hello people i have a quick question about the temperature for a good fermentation process for Cider, i use apple juice and sugar to make some hard apple cider with walmart apple juice 100%. i make 3 jug of one gallon each, i put a spoon of yeast nutriments and put the LALVIN K1V-1116...
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    Wasted jug of cider?

    hello brewing partners im new in this brewing art and i have a question about the progress of my first try of brewing some hard apple cider. i use un galon of 100% great value apple juice. one cup of raw cane sugar and lalvin yeast. it have less than 24 hours fermenting with alot of...
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