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Hello, newbie wine maker here so here is a quick question for the long time wine makers. Noting the post primary fermented Tempranillo wine was a bit fruity, I wanted to increase the complexity and age ability of it by adding tannic acid. Following an instruction I added 1 teaspoon in 5...

Just ordered the goods but I am going an experimental route on this. Doing a 2 gallon extract batch 70% malt 30 % wheat. Splitting it into two 1 gallon glass jugs. Pitching half vial of Brett C. In both. 1 adding grape juice, the other apple juice, or possibly pear juice, going to ferment out...

First let me say that I linger around the beer boards so forgive my stupid noob question and humor me a tad. Ok mates, I made my first batch of apfelwein, it is 1 month in the making. I took a gravity sample and it is fermented out. Sampling my sample, I found it dry, the oak is coming...

Quick update on my Single Hop Experiments to date. I am making SMaSH or near to it, something like .75 Crystal 40L and .50lb Rye in addition to the Pale Ale Malt Base. Target OGs 1.055-1.057. All brewed with S-05. Also used a hop bursting and hop standing technique using 6 ounces in the last...

I find it odd at times reading the newbie posts where they are freaking out about some abnormality, an infection, forgetting to add an ingredient or making a mistake. I get it, there is a lot of time and effort, and cost that goes into a homebrew session. What newbies have to understand is...

Hey gang, I just used Styrian's in a Saison yesterday, and I forgot how fantastic they smell, so I am thinking of incorporating that aroma in a Rye IPA. I still want to incorporate some C hops in there but I want to complement and accentuate the Styrians. Is that possible? I'm...

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I recently acquired a few vials of WLP644 - (the yeast formally thought to be Brettonomyces, but later discovered to be (probably) Saccharomyces Cerevisiae). Characterized as an attenuative yeast that produces 'ripe' tropical fruit flavors. ref white labs web site. Anyway, I was thinking...