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Is it ok to use aquarium silicone tube for siphoning when brewing?

Here's something more simpler that I tried once. Make a sugar syrup one cup water, one cup sugar. I made 20oz./600ml of ginger ale with this: put in a pot 350mL of water and 30 grams of ginger cut into pieces. Let it simmer for ten minutes then filter or take out the ginger pieces. Add 4oz. of...

I searched plantain beer and there wasn't much information and what people were talking about was to add some plantains into a malted barley beer, not a plantain only beer. I am going to try to make plantain only beer. What I was thinking to let a plantain ripen as much possible to convert the...

I tasted the cider today and it smell sort of like beer and tasted like wine with apples. I didn't take gravity readings but guesing from the alcoholic kick that it had I'd say it has about 12-10% ABV. Even though I used bread yeast, I was surprised that there wasn't even a hint the "bready" taste.

If you want it to be dry why would you back sweeten? To back sweeten you just add sugar, so that the fermentation doesn't continue you can add non fermentable sugars like splenda or add a fermentable sugar and keep in the fridge so fermentation doesn't restart or stove top pasteurize to kill...

You could try doing a perry like Edwort's alfelwein just do pear juice instead of apple juice.

How much time does the 1 oz. per 5 gallons of water BWV solution stay effective for sanitizing?

You could extract some ginger juice or brew a concentrated ginger tea and add it into the carboy for a stronger taste. What is the aproximate alcohol concetration that it has?

Why a scuba shop, they will only be able to fill with filtered air and or some nitrox mix which they get by adding oxygen from 100lb. medical O2 tanks.

If there is foam then there is fermentation. Check if the container and the airlock has a proper seal, maybe the gas is escaping somewhere.

If you put some ginger is water with sugar it will start fermenting. What are microorganisms in the ginger, probably several yeasts, but are there some bacterias or other things that might consume sugar or the alcohol produced by the yeast?

Wouldn't it be better if the tube in the hot water to be metal or glass since silicone tubing is not as heat conductive as those.

I tried the ginger beer and was disapointed, it was extremely spicy. Is there a way to make beer that isn't so spicy. Is it that I boiled the ginger too much or that I put too much ginger. I dumped out some of the liquid of the remaining bottle and replaced it with a brown sugar syrup and let...

So to find the sg I just need to find the density of what I am fermenting , since the density water's density is 1 g/mL. The scale I have measures grams with no decimals, is that ok for finding sg?

I dont want to buy a hydrometer, so I was thinking of making one. My idea is to take a straw, heat one end and close it, then put some sort of weight inside the straw. To make the marks I would put the straw in distilled water and where it floats that would be 1. Then I make a mark were the one...

After a week the fermentation has slown down, when is it that I should bottle the cider?

The methanol doesn't do much in hangovers, since its in very minute amounts and a treatment for methanol poisoning is to take ethanol, so when you drink alcoholic beverages that contain some methanol you're counteracting the effects of the methanol, since they have ethanol. What drinking ethanol...

To cut the bottles you don't need to buy a special bottle cutter. This is how I cut bottles: firsts you mark with tape and a paper strip where you want to cut the bottle, then put the bottle in a place where there is a 90 degree angle (example: where floor and wall meet), then with a simple...

Here is one I cut and sanded.

Has anyone cut beer bottles to make cups for drinking beer?