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Brain pickin' time - I am making Curt Stock's Super Berry Melomel. OG 1.158 FG 1.030-1.040 estim ABV 15.8 21 lbs wildflower honey 12 lbs blackberry/raspberry/blueberry mix 6 lbs strawberries 96 ounces black currant juice 2.3 gal water Narbonne yeast Staggered nutrient/energizer...

Thought I'd pass on this tip Went to my local recycling center today and came home with about a hundred Summit empties. I soaked them in Star San thinking if they sat long enough the labels would come off easily. Nope. Still needed a -lot- of scraping and scrubbing. Tried PBW at minimal...

English Brown Ale finished at 1.01, 48 bottles, and guess what, tastes good even before it's carbonated!! Couldn't be happier - I was worried it would taste like ... used beer. Now I have an empty fermenter, so it's time to clean the kitchen and get the next batch cooking.

OK, so I thought I'd try this White House Honey Ale, bought a one gallon kit. I'm due to bottle it tomorrow, and I'm realizing that I came up well short of the one gallon mark after brewing. I am over 15% short I'm figuring. (by weight) What effect will this have on the finished product...

Tell me if I'm right. Am I infected? I am brand new to brewing, haven't even bottled anything yet, much in the works. In primary: Irish Red Ale, American Cream Ale, California Common, White House Honey Ale and a Show Mead. In secondary: English Brown Ale and a Mixed Berry Serrano Mead...

I found a reference on the beer side of the site to off flavors and their likely causes, e.g., "wet cardboard taste is almost certainly due to oxidation." Is anyone aware of a similar reference for meads or wines? My first JAOM + oranges was unpleasant when I racked the other day, but as...

Wondering if this is normal activity or suspicious for some other gas producing organism. it's a 5 gallon batch with 15 lbs honey, 2 pkts of D-47 and energizer / nutrient to start. On day 4 added 1.5 tsp nutrient / energizer. Have not messed with it otherwise. Airlock popping every 4-5...

Started a (5 gal) batch today. Used two smack packs of Wyeast 2124, pitched at 69 degrees, 1.046. It's parked at room temp now and is starting to perk at 4 hours. Great. The question is this: The California Common can ferment at ale temps, but with this lager yeast does colder = better...

Do I have a gallon of toxic waste? I have my first batch of mead in secondary, and I used a bag of marbles to maintain volume. Then I see referenced somewhere that "lead-free" marbles are recommended, and I have lost track of that post & it's poster. I would have noticed a reference to lead...

Hello all. First buckets of both mead and english brown ale perking away. The waiting is killing me!