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I had bottled a batch of wine on Sunday and let them stand for a couple days before laying them down, which I normally do. Today I noticed on 7 of the 28 corks that there is wine seeping through almost. One is about 25% red. I had bought this kit a few months ago but the corks were still...

I have made many batches of beer and am making my first wine kit. It's a Merlot. The kit says to keep it between 20-25C (68-77F). I noticed my room has been more like 18-19C. Is that gonna be an issue? It seems to be fermenting fine. I just really know nothing about temperature importance...

Ok so I got a partial extract kit from Brewcraft USA and it is for a West Coast IPA. The question I have is that it states to open and mix all the hops and split them into: 1oz bittering 2oz flavor 1oz aroma 1oz dry hopping Is that normal to mix them all first? The hops it came...

Ok so 2 years ago I had attended an annual big family pig roast out of town and this is back when I was just drinking whatever kinda beer was put in front of me. I had forgotten my cooler bag there in the morning. The last year pig roast I couldn't attend but this year I made it! As we were...

I picked up a couple more partial kits from my LHBS and the german black ale came with a pack of gelatin finings to add to secondary. I never secondary and do any of you even recommend using them? Will it make the beer that much clearer, it's a black ale after all.

I had bottled a pale ale 17 days ago and it had finished out after taking gravity readings 3 days apart. It was an og of 1.046 and finished at 1.012 I had opened up my rubbermaid today to grab some glass bottles of an older batch to throw in the fridge for a few days and noticed that one...

I know I've read in this forum somewhere that coopers kits can often finish out at 1.020 but I can't find it. Anyways I brewed a coopers english bitter kit 12 days ago. Just did it with 750 grams of dextrose. OG of 1.038 and kept it at a controlled temperature of 70F. 5 gallons. I...

Did this red ale at the end of May and bottled on June 9th. Had some early ones of course due to impatience but found the best time, or maybe not? Head retention is pretty weak and lacing is minimal but it's tastier than a Rickards Red, which is what I was going for. Happy belated...

So I spent the afternoon bottling my first batch of beer (irish red ale) and was a success I feel. After I was done all my clean up I noticed what was possibly a crack in the carboy, I honestly didn't even inspect this the first time I used it but maybe it's not a crack but just a defect...

Just decided lately that I needed a hobby and what better than a hobby I can consume. Especially beer. Anyway I just got my first batch going. It is a red ale done with this festa brew kit. The guy at the store told me I should start with this (also was on sale) but wow it seemed really...