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I will be moving to the area soon and wondering if we got any homebrewers out there ? Also how is the water for brewing there ?

I just saw a thread in the General section about adding Olive oil to beer, but did not see much on the addition to mead. Has anyone here used it to help in fermentation ? If so when do you add it ? During the steep of the honey or when the yeast is pitched ?

Is it just me or does anyone else keep their own great beer recipe a secret. Do you have that one beer recipe that is so good that you want to keep it to yourself and have on tap only at your place? Personaly I have a Old ale and a mead that I just love and cant see sharing the recipe lol . :D

So I made a 6 gallon batch of beer and attached the blow off tube. But found I lost more beer then expected. Can I just replace what was lost (when bottling), or would that mess up the abv in the end? I am wondering what was lost, if I lost a lot of fermentable sugars during that process ? I...

I made a Porter. Going to primary ferment it for a week then add cherries for another week, until fermentation is complete. But wanted to know how to carbonate one or two bottles. Its my own recipie but I wanted to know how my basic porter recipie comes out. So when I transfer to the secondary I...

So I have this brew that I am wondering if it can be considered a Braggot. It has half honey, half malt plus some fruit added. And going to use some wine yeast. It should run about +-6% ABV. So would this be a small Braggot ?

I started making 1 gallon batches of mead on the side, while I brew mostly beer. But dont know the effects of light and mead. I plan to bottle most of my meads in beer bottles, but wanted to have one out of each batch in a clear wine bottle. Will the light effect the meads taste in anyway...

Just bottled my first mead. A Mixed Berry Mead ! :rockin: Now I have Lemon Mead going, and next I was thinking of making just a basic mead, honey only. Question tho, when making just a basic mead does it need to age? I thought I read some where that once its finished you can drink it or...

I just took a reading on my Dubbel and it hits its target gravity of 1.018. Making the brew at about 8.3%, a bit higher then what I wanted. Was looking for more about 7-7.5%, but no problem. For this brew I boiled date sugar for the last 10 min of the boil. I was wondering how to add more of...

I been brewing for about a year now and when I made my first brew, the shop gave me a paper with your basic instructions. One item on there was that a way to tell when your brew was done, to check the airlock and if its longer then 60 seconds between the gases, its time to bottle. I was just...

I was trying to figure out how would 4 lbs of Raspberries would effect the F.G. of my brew. Basically how much sugar if any is fermented? :confused: