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Hi, I am hoping someone here can help me find a wine making guide. A couple years ago I had found a guide on making wine from Norton grapes. I think it was from a Midwest agricultural org and it was a PDF file. I have plenty of books and guides on making wine but I'm interested in a guide...

I was at the Heritage Brewers Festival in St. Louis last weekend and in the home brewers tent they had some contraption filled with hops that beer was forced through from the pressurized keg. The contraption was clear and completely filled with hops. Carbonated beer from the keg was pushed...

This morning for the first time, 10 batches, I woke up to the Krausen overflowing my fermentation bucket from the airlock. Do I need worry about any infection since it was somewhat exposed overnight. I assume it was flowing the entire time and still was when I inserted a sanitized blow off...

I'm making a 2nd batch of Coastal White and thought maybe I'd like to try a malolactic fermentation. I've read that maybe this should not be done with most kits but was wondering if its possible with this Midwest supplies kit. I'm going to oak it lightly and thought also the MF would also help...

I'm making a 5 gallon batch of Cream Ale this weekend from an extract kit and looking for something interesting to add. The guy at the LHBS said he likes Vanilla but i'm not sure about it. Just wondering if anyone has any other ideas about what I might add to make this a bit different.

I'm on vacation and all I can think about is brewing my next batch of beer and what equipment I'm going to buy to go AG, what kind of barrel I'm going to get for aging a Scottish Ale and my new wine making kit that I'm staring next week. Do I need to find some sort of addict group? :)

Wow I ordered a Wine Kit from a Groupons deal for $79 a few days ago and I just looked at the Fedex tracking, it's on the truck for delivery to my house already! I figured a couple weeks but it's going to show up today, that's pretty cool. Especially since it's my birthday today, nice...

I have a basic question about boiling. While steeping my grains yesterday at 150 degrees F, I was beginning to wonder if boiling temps need to be monitored. Does the temperature of boiling wort remain constant by the very nature of a boiling liquid or should I know what the temperature is?

Started at 7am this morning with crushing grains and already have them steeping. Just learned that it doesn't take much to keep water at 150 degrees :) I'm pretty excited that I moved away from kits and went from a recipe this time. Even though its my first non-kit brew I feel like I've done...

Hi, I recently brewed an bottled a Brewers Best American Amber kit and all went great through the fermentation. It started and stopped at the correct OG and FG reading per the instructions. I left it in the main fermenter for 3 weeks then moved it to a bottling bucket for immediate bottling...

Just doing the brief introduction thing here. About 10 years ago I made a few kit brews from Mr Beer and just now getting back to brewing again. I currently have an American Amber in the 6.5 gallon primary. I'll be bottling this time into 12oz glass bottles but I'm hoping to get into kegging...