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I havent brewed in about 6 months. I made up the Blackberry Crush juice as noted in a few posts back. The sugar content of the juice should work out to be almost exactly the same as Edworts Apfelwein. I made it up last night around 6:00 pm, and dropped in the montrachet yeast. As of this...

My girlfriend has turned me onto Blackberry Crush from Trader Joes. I just looked at the ingredients and its made with Apple, White Grape, and Blackberry juices. There are no preservatives, and its 100% juice. It looks like it has 29 grams of sugar per 8oz, which apple juice alone is about...

I started an Imperial Stout a month ago. It started out at 1.093 gravity. I decided to just primary it for over a month, and then keg condition it. Today I prepped the keg, prepped the priming sugar, purged the O2 from the keg, then racked it. After I was finished racking I took my final...

I have all of the the equiptment to do full boils for 5 gallon batches of beer. My Agent Orange has been such a smash success that I was asked to produce two full kegs of it for an Art Showing that my friend is hosting. It would be a great oportunity for me to start getting the word on the...

What temperature does a mead have to sit at. I want to make one, but my house is ~80 degrees.

Can you take a freshly kegged beer (or apfelwein), and put it into bottles? Im thinking three options: a) After carbinization, taking a cold bottle and filling it, then capping it. b) Before carbed, pumping it into bottle with some sugar tabs, then capping. c) Spending the money (to...

So I just got a very last minute thing. One of my buddies who I had no idea was in town just called, and is going to be coming by in 2 to 3 hours with his new girlfriend. He hasnt been to my new house since I moved in, and now I have my wonderful kegerator. My wonderful; empty; kegerator...

Before putting my CO2 system in the fridge, I made 100% sure I was leak free. About 1 week after putting it together I noticed I was out of gas. I quickly realized that with the lower temps, the plastic lines have all shrunk down, and are now leaking. Does anyone have any suggestions on how...

So I have everything I need to make my Apfelwein. Im about to start sanitizing my equiptment right now. I have looked at the instructions several times. It looks like I just pour the yeast right on in without rehydrating it. Is that correct?

I live in So Cal, and want to know what kind of store, other than LHBS, that would carry a Porkert or Corona mill. I dont really know where to begin, but I want to try to buy one locally tomorrow. More Beer has a grinder, but it costs over $100 and is out of stock. I saw the Porkert online...

I ordered my grains for my next beer from Morebeer.com. I didnt have them mill them for me by accident. I thought they milled them unless you requested otherwise, and found out that its vice versa. Soooo, is there a way I can grind them up myself, or do I need to head over to my lhbs? I...

I started up an Imperial Stout on Thursday morning. I used a starter that I had made about 3 days prior. I could see some Krausen forming by evening time, but by the next day it was going crazy. I used a blow off, and boy am I glad I did. The OG was 1.095. I havent taken another sample...

Ive noticed that in all of the pictures I have seen of Edwort's Apfewien, the Carboys are sitting out in the open without covers on them. It is generally okay to allow light to hit Ciders?

Cracked open my first two kegs last night. I had about 20 people over. We managed to finish one, and got about 3/4 of the way through the other. So, I was playing with my son after I probably had a little too much to drink. I manged to run into the wall, and I have a nice 2 inch gash above...

I just finished making my Imperial Stout. 1.093 on the hydrometer. This was a half grain half liquid recipe. (Is that called a partial mash?) I started with 6.5 gallons of water. After I got to boil and dumped in my 12# of liquid malt, I realized that I was at a good 7.5 gallons. I...

I made a starter on Monday Night. Im planning on pitching it tomorrow morning. When I made it I put in 1000 mls of water, about a half cup of LDME and a pinch of Yeast Nutrient. I boiled it for 20 minutes which took it down to about 800mls of wort. I tossed in 2 white labs Irish Stout vials...

I put in another keg in my kegerator today. Since it took me so long to get the bugs worked out the first time, the fridge got cooled to 40 degrees in a step down fashion. Now that I have thrown the other keg in it, I have just allowed it to run until it gets to the desired temperature. Its...

I know Im a low brewtime n00b, but I have already had the unfortunate experience of blowing up a glass carboy. It was a few years back, but I remember it like yesterday. I cleaned a carboy with hot water to help with killing the bacteria. Then I went to fill it with the water needed in...

Im doing full boils in my 10 gallon kettle over a 60k btu burner. I have made 2 batches so far with this setup, and my propane tank feels alot lighter. How many batches do you guys usually get to make before running out of gas?

I finally got my thermostat problem solved. I dont want to overpush the limits of my compressor. So what temp do you guys usually leave your kegerators at? I assumed just above freezing, say 36 degrees, or so.