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I tasted my first batch of skeeter pee. I pretty much followed the recipee exactly. I was surprised that it didn't taste more lemony. It tastes good and I like it, but I still would like it have more lemon flavor. Can I add some lemon kool-aid or something to make it taste more like lemonade?

I'm on the last step of making my skeeter pee. I added the sparkloid yesterday and it is a lot clearer already, but I see a bunch of yellow crud on the bottom. Do I need to stir it up occasionally, or do I just let it sit for a week and it will all disappear on its own? Or do I just try to be...

I'm at the point in my batch where I need to add the yeast slurry. Yesterday I made the slurry with the EC-1118 like this video http://youtu.be/PiqOQ8EBIeU. My question is, after I pour the slurry into the Skeeter Pee, do I need to stir it or anything?

I didn't like the format that the recipee (see what I did there?) was in on the website. So I put it in a more traditional recipeee format: Day 1 (D0) 1. Make invert sugar by adding your 16 cups sugar to a large stainless cooking pot along with 8 cups water and 1/3 cup lemon juice. 2. Stir...

I am going to be bottling my first batch next weekend. Is there any way to set up my workspace so it will be easier on my back? I see in most YouTube videos people bottle on the floor. How long does it take to fill 50+ bottles? Is there any way to move the setup to table-level so I won't have to...

A friend of mine has a friend (isn't it always like that?) that says one time he had a batch of homebrew that he screwed up and his bottles exploded. Is that really possible? If you were going to do it on purpose, what would you do?

I am thinking about carefully transferring to a bottling bucket the night before I will be bottling. I'll try to leave all the crud behind. Should I add the priming sugar that night when I transfer, or should I wait until right before bottling?

Would it be ok to just add ice right to the wort? Instead of water? I mean, you've got like 3 gallons of wort, and you need to add water to it to get it up to 5. Why not just add ice?

I've also got a few weeks before bottling. Right now my brew is in a plastic bucket, doing its magic. I like the idea of moving the brew the day before. I heard there will be a lot of crud on the bottom of the bucket, and I assume I won't want that in my bottles. I have the bottle filler thing...

I remember when I was a kid, may parents used to can a lot of vegetables and fruits. They were always super worried about food poisoning. I was careful with my first batch to sterilize everything after the boiling phase. My question is, how much of a threat is food poisoning in this hobby? What...

Can you point me to the threads that you are referring to?

So, if I hear you correctly, I can let it sit in this bucket and you are recommending that I let it stay for a full month even. I can do that. And then I can go right from this bucket to the bottles??? I think I need to add some sugar first. But won't it go flat if I let it sit for a month? How...

First post here. I just got a home brew kit for my birthday. I made a batch of Octoberfest. The recipe called for it to ferment in a bucket for one week and then transfer it to a carboy for a second week. I was just wondering what the purpose of this transfer is. Why not have it in the carboy...