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Twas the night before brew day, when all through the house Not an airlock was stirring, not even a louse. The blowoffs were hung by the fermentors with care, In hopes that St Arnold soon would be there. The parents were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of gravities danced in their...

People keep asking me for my coffee wine recipe, so here it is. This wine needs 4-6 months to mature. Longer is better. ABV: 12.7-14% 6 oz medium roast ground coffee, by weight. I used Dunkin' Donuts brand, because that's what I like to drink. About 2 1/2 lbs of granulated table sugar. 2...

Notice: I'm going to be running a new version of this wine within the next couple of months. I believe the new approach I am planning will totally wipe the floor with the recipe below, so you might want to wait a little bit while I get things put together. I've been looking at banana wine...

I started scaling a recipe down for someone to make cider with, and ended up rambling a good deal about making cider. Here's the recipe that resulted. It's designed to produce a little less then a gallon. Green Apple Cider OG: 1.100 FG: 1.0 ABV: 13.3% Minimum aging time: 2 months Typical...

I had a bottle of "So Duh! Rockin' Root Beer" today. I like root beer. I've tried lots of kinds, both glass bottle and plastic bottle mass produced stuff. This one totally blew my mind. No root beer I've ever tasted is even close. It's got an excellent creamy head with excellent retention...

I made some punch for Christmas, and it occured to me that it would probably force carb very well. 1 quart orange sherbet 2 liters orange soda 2 cinnamon sticks 1 tsp cloves 1/2 tsp nutmeg 2 tablespoons orange zest 1 oz rum 1 tablespoon vanilla extract about 1 cup sprite zero, or similar Mix...

I'm not absolutely certain that there isn't a beer I like, but I've tried a few and just haven't found anything I really enjoy. I want to see if there is a kind of beer I like. So I'm looking for suggestions on what to try next, preferably something I can reasonably find in Denver. Here is...

I enjoy brewing more then I enjoy drinking. Does that make me a mutant? :fro:

So, the total batch size is a little shy of 4 gallons. My cheapo water bottle fermentor is 4 gallons. That was 3.5 gallons of cider at a gravity of 1.042 + granulated sugar until I got a gravity of 1.110. Slightly higher then I was aiming for, but still fine. 4 teaspoons of yeast nutrient...

I made some syrup today that I intend to use mostly to backsweeten cider. It came out really well, so I thought I would share. :) Ingredients: 5 lbs of gala apples. This was last years crop, but for this application it isn't important. 6 quarts of apple juice. I used Members Mark 100%...

I wasn't sure if this should really go in this section of the forum, but I didn't see anywhere else that seemed better. I just pitched my first attempt at a hard limeade, and thought it would be a good idea to publicly document the attempt. That way others can help/learn from the attempt...

So, I bottled my first batch of cider this last weekend. Or is it technically applewine? Overall it's mediocre. I did not own a hydrometer with the right gravity range to determine what the actual abv was. However, it was fairly boozy. :drunk: The basic recipe was 2 quarts simple syrup to 6...