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Instructions on my wine kit (Italian Nebbiolo, Grand Cru, if that matters) say to keep wine in secondary (after degassing, adding clearing agents etc) at 59-66F. Mine has been sitting at probably an average of 55-57. Does that affect the length of time it should take to clear?

I'm new to Nitro. On my second keg. In both beers, the head is thicker than in the classic Guinness pour. It has what looks like the right density and thickness at the bottom, but then on top of that is a somewhat 'looser' layer. Picture is below. It's not a big issue but would love to have...

I don't really have a question. Just sharing the fact that, had I used the usual 2-3 days in a row with same gravity reading guideline, I'd have thought this mead was done fermenting a long time ago! Note each vertical line is a week. (Note I didn't put the Tilt in until the mead was around...

The title said it all: Even if you have a nice clear beer in a bottle, wouldn't the jostling that takes place during shipping kick up the sediment created by the bottle priming, resulting in the judges seeing a cloudy beer? One option is to force carbonate in the keg and dispense into a...

Brewing my first barleywine. OG came out low because of unexpectedly low efficiency. OG was 1.098. My best guess is FG will be about 1.025 (9.6%). I kinda want it to be a 'real' barleywine, so am thinking about adding sugar to bring up the ABV. AND, I figured, while I'm add it, maybe add...

The fam rented a house and got together yesterday. Found this guy in the garbage disposal. As these things tend to do, it became an ongoing joke, but also an object of curiosity. Has anyone seen this before/know what it is?

I'm going to be giving out bottles of a beer to strangers, so I want to get the ABV right, or at least not be significantly off. So I'd like to know if I'm doing this correctly: Just finished primary fermentation with a 1.067 OG beer. FG was 1.014, so it's 7% ABV now. Racked into secondary...

The kit instructions said to degas first after racking from primary, which I did attempt until I was tired. Then I added the chemicals. Then later I thought I had better do a better job, so got a drill-mountable stirrer from a friend and degassed the hell out of it. (it seemed to still never...

A friend wants to brew a pretty strong wheat beer tomorrow (let's say 6-7% ABV). It's for his sixtel, so will probably do a 5.5 gallon batch. He likes german type wheat beers. The most suitable yeast I have is Lallemand's Munich Wheat Beer yeast, but only have half a packet. Here's the...

People go to a lot of trouble, including me, to try to bottle from their taps in a way that keeps fizzing to a minimum--cooling the bottles, maintaining pressure while pouring, pouring under low pressure, and so on. Even then, sometimes our efforts result in flat or flattish beer later when we...

Lots of stuff on here about pre-chilling water for an immersion chiller during hot season by using a second immersion chiller, by recirculating, etc., but what about using an immersion chiller 'normally', except with an especially long hose that you coil up in a bucket of ice? Also, is any type...

Had this Vienna Lager lagering for about 45 days in secondary. 7 days ago I added gelatin. Just went to start to ramp the temp up to keg in a couple days and there's something on top I've never seen before. Could it be something from the gelatin? An infection? It was not there at all before...

A friend's daughter decided to do some HS research project on the effect of the govt shutdown on the craft beer industry. I expect her to contact me about it, so... I know breweries cannot get new labels approved right now, but are there other effects that you-all know about?

So I found some old threads on this, but nothing jumped out as an elegant solution. The problem is the potential for a cat to push a tap handle. Unless you have an unusually smart and considerate cat, this would result in an empty keg and a very, very wet floor. Solutions fell into 3 basic...

So went home for Thanksgiving. My mom had the idea of me doing a beer at her place. That would be way too much with everything else going on, so I suggested a mead instead. Didn't want to give it TOO much thought, so to speak. I'm wondering how I did, what people think of my plan, and any...

Both the starter and the fermentation are much slower than what I usually experience. The (2 liter) starter took 2 days to show signs of fermentation. And even though when I pitched it it was going, the fermentation has also been very slow. In 7 days it's gone from 13.25 brix to 11.5 brix...

I just poured 12 oz of coffee into my 5 gallon fermenter, which has been aging an imperial stout (now an imperial coffee stout, I suppose!). I think the FG is 1.020 or so. Can I expect the coffee to diffuse evenly throughout the fermenter, or will it sit on top since it's (a lot?) less...

It's 34/70 from a batch I kegged today. Light stuff on bottom, dark on top. Thoughts on what I'm looking at here?

I have a chair that plugs into the wall but the power adapter is missing. I haven't been able to get in touch yet with the company that makes it. Looks like I need an AC/DC adapter, since the chair indicates it's 12V DC (4amp). The plug on the chair (pictured below) resembles that on a...