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I have been brewing beer for about 15 years and I have a set up now to distill. Can I do a mash the way I do a beer, ferment and siphon to the still pot and go from there? Or do I ferment with all of the grains right in the carboy?

I'm not sure why my OG is all the way up to 1.122. I used 2 5g packs of K1 V1116. I don't really care for sweet meads or wines. Will this ferment down far enough to get it on the dryer side?

My second mead is an Orange blossom honey mead which I made last weekend. When I rack to secondary, the orange blossoms will be in full bloom here in AZ. Has anyone actually racked a mead onto orange blossoms for the ultimate orange flower mead?

I bought some nice looking raw honey off of a guy on the street for my first batch of mead. He told me it was 5#, so I made the mead( 2 gal batch) and my OG was 1.068. I weighed the jar and it was 1#, so I was short a pound of honey. Can I add more honey in a couple of days? If so, how would I...

Today i racked my imperial sweet stout to secondary.After 1 month in primary, the FG reading is 1.040, this seems way high to me. Anybody ever have that FG with Imperial stout?( 1 lb of milk sugar during boil) I plan on leaving it in secondary for a month and bottle for a month.

I brewed an oatmeal stout with an OG of 1.056,and bottled today after 2 weeks,stupidly enough, I took my FG, after I bottled (I know, I should have done it before hand, I said it was stupid). Anyways, the FG was 1.020. Am I going to get gushers, or worse, bottle bombs?

I could not find a clear answer to this. I used a zink plated washer on the inside of my mashing tun,should I throw out my beer for health reasons, or is it okay to drink it?

My recepit calls for mashing at 155, i'm at 148 and cant get it to go up and my mash is starting to thin. what should i do?

Do these kegs use the same parts?

I racked a bock to secondary last saturday,and i'm still getting a little action from the air lock.The FG was right on the money before I racked it.Is this normal?I also started using star san with this batch,does that make a difference?

FG 1.016, should I just set this up with a blow off from the get go,or will there be enough head space?

Doing a wheat bock tomarrow and all I have is notty for yeast will it work for that high of an OG? 1.074- FG 1.017)

I just racked my strawberry wheat to secondary and tasted the hydro sample and it seemed very dry.The sample I tasted the day I brewed was very sweet.I used nottingham yeast,which i've used before and it wasent like that.Could it be the exrtract I used?I ordered it off morebeer.com,or the...

Can you make a 3 gal. batch of mead in a 6 gal. carboy?

I have a wit bottled in my temp controled fridge at 60F.The strawberry wheat recipe says to ferment at 70F.Can I turn the temp up to 70F without screwing up my wit? (used nottingham for yeast)

Should I use gelatin when I transfer to secondary or does it effect the flavor. I don't care to much about haze, but I don't want red mud either.

I ferment, and age, in a frig with the freezer on top ,does anyone know how,or is it possible, to take the divider between the frig part and the freezer out? So I can have more room for...more batches. The more batches the...