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I'm a moderately experienced homebrewer and have decided to try to make a couple of lambics. I just bought a couple of lambic kits, but the brewing instructions that came with them are just the regular run-of-the-mill kit instructions you'd get for just about any basic kit. For example the...

What is the best method to “step-feed” yeast? I'm working on a new recipe – a sweet, high alcohol, chocolate / habanero mead, and I'm looking to get the most out of my EC-1118 yeast. Is it better to add the honey in equal parts over a period of several days, thus never letting the gravity...

Does anyone know if these caps: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?products_id=1347 will fit 1.75L Quervo Gold bottles? I've accumulated quite a lot of these bottles and plan to put a mead in them. I have the metal caps, but they are very flimsy and I want something...

My peach wine won't clear.... Recipe: 6gal batch 4.5gal Welch's white grape peach juice (SG = 1.057) 5x 12oz white grape juice concentrate 9cups cane sugar 1tsp energizer 1tsp nutrient water to 6gal EC-1118 OG = 1.090 After 1 week, SG = 1.004. Racked to secondary...

I know that the chemical processes that take place during “aging” aren't completely understood, but has anyone ever done the simple experiment of determining the concentration of propanol, butanol, and other higher-order alcohols both at 1 month and then at 1 and 2 years from fermentation? This...

I understand the need for temperature control during fermentation and storage of wine... But what about for a wine kit BEFORE it's made? I live in the desert, and if I order a kit it's likely that the juice will hit 110deg by the time I receive it. Will this negatively affect the finished...

My "End-of-the-World Mayan Inspired” chocolate mead has been in secondary for 2 months after having been in primary for 1 month. When I put the recipe together, I chickened out of putting any chilli peppers. Well, I recently had some high quality chocolate with chilli peppers in it, and it was...

How many gravity points will a cider drop when bottle carbing? How about if I want a champagne level of carbonation?

I have some Super-Kleer K.C. that I intend to use for several batches of mead and wine I currently have in secondary. In researching this (and other) clarifiers, it seems that not only do they settle out insoluble materials, many of them are also reported to remove some soluble components...

Not sure this is the best place to put this, but I just threw together a fun video of my last Barley Wine attempt... (I've noticed videos get chopped when posting here, so it's better to open a new window.)

So the Mayans supposedly predicted the end of the world for 12/21/2012, and some of us think it would be nice to make a special, Mayan inspired, mead to toast when that day arrives. :mug: The Mayas used cocoa and vanilla, so I've decided to use these for my End-of-the-World mead: 6gal...

I just spent a couple hours reading every post about the Leap Year Mead that several of you have going. I really like the idea of being part of such an endeavor, so I was wondering if anyone had plans for doing an “End-of-the-World” mead? You know, the end of the world being...