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Holy cow, this recipe sounds like a plan :) I'll let you know how it turned out.

Does it matter if the raisins have some oil in it? The raisins I've got contains sunflower oil and sulphites, are they usable in any wine making?

Why and how do you pasteurize it? Wouldn't it cause the alcohol to evaporate?

Hi !! I learned that to boil fruits isn't really a good idea before fermenting them. I thought it would be a good idea to kill the "wild yeast" present in the fruit(as I read somewhere), so I boiled an orange and some raisins(dried grapes) before putting it in a gallon of mead which is now...

Hi, I'm now making a batch of 5 gallons of grape wine. I use a improvised recipe wich is: 10 lbs of grapes 6 Kg of sugar and all usual stuff such camden and all. I forgot to buy some lemon for citric acid, I don't know how much to use, I have some lemon juice in here. Can I use this...

I used 6 kg of sugar, so 1,2 kg per gallon. The yeast I used is some Lalvin EC1118 wine yeast, the only wine yeast I can get from my local brewing store. I didn't checked the density, my hydrometer is broken : /. If I put campden tablet when putting to secondary, will it kill the wine yeast...

Hi everybody, I made a batch of 5 gallons of strawberry wine yesterday. I was told that campden tablets were not really necessary if I clean the berries very well. So I washed them with hot water and I didn't use campden tablet. The recipe was: 10 lbs of strawberries 6 kg of sugar lemon...

10 Gallons still fermenting Total = 4887 Skål!

Hi, I have two batches of apfelwein that is fermenting now. I did some researches about apfelwein, so I went to the grocery story and I bought 44 L of cheap apple juice.(Yes I looked like insane) But afterwards, I realised that some people said to not take apple juice from concentrate. My juice...

Thank you for your answers! So, if I understand well, I should put 2 pounds of honey about 3 or 4 days after pitching the yeast. Should I stir it all? Will the stir affect the batch? Thank you again.

Hi! I saw this thread : https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=51887 and I'm very interested in making some honey beer. But I use Cooper's malt extract, I just wonder about how much honey I should put in my 5 gallon batch. Do you think I should read the nutrition facts of the honey and...

Hi everyone, I've started a new batch of beer in my primary fermentation bin. I put the lid on and after that I put the airlock filled of aseptox. Then, I don't know why, but the bin instantly sucked about half the aseptox in, pouring in the beer. Then I thought it would be ok. Then some days...

The samples were took when I brewed the beer, before to pitch the yeast, and with time it got some residues floating in it. They were not refrigerated, I kept them in my closet so they were at approximatly 70 F.

What you need: -A pack of 5g of yeast -Yeast nutrient -5kg of pure honey -A funnel -5 gallons of water -A carboy(of course!) Pour the honey in the carboy with a funnel and boil a gallon of water to pick up everything in the honey's pot and to avoid jam in the funnel. Add the rest of the...

Hey guys, I have three 5 gallons of beer that is fermenting for a few weeks in my closet, but as I was sanitizing my equipment, I broke my hydrometer. So I kept a sample of each beer in a soft drink bottle, for like one to two weeks. I bought a new hydrometer this morning and so I took the...