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I recently fermented 5 gal of white grape/peach juice with EC-1118, and got it down to .996 a few weeks ago. I'm looking to make a medium sweet wine, so I put the requisite Kmeta and sorbate in the bottom of a 6 gal bucket and racked onto it. I only have one 5 gal container (the one I was...

My son and I normally brew beer together, but the wife and daughter like wine better. I wanted to brew a peach flavored wine, like Moscoto, and thought I would try amending a simple recipe like the Welchs frozen grape juice wine. While searching for ingredients, I found that Walmart had white...

I just replaced the valve stem that connects the CO2 tank with the regulator. What is the best way to seal the threaded connection into the regulator? I have pipe dope and teflon tape. What is recommended ? Thanks

I recently made a batch of NB's Red Irish Ale extract kit. After adding the extract and bringing back up to boil, I added the Willamette hops and got an immediate boilover. Later, as I was cleaning off the burner, it occurred to me that a lot of what I was chipping off was probably the hops...

I'd been thinking about getting in to home brewing for a couple of years, but probably for the wrong reasons. Being a natural born cheapskate, I figured I could make beer cheaper than I could buy it. Started reading up on it, as I do on everything, and saw that it did require some investment...

OK, this is my second brew. It's a Northern Brewer Caribou Slobber. Only have a primary fermentor, so left it in for the recommended 3 weeks. Now within several hours of putting in fermentor, it was bubbling like crazy,but after only a few days it really slowed down. Thinking the room was...