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I usually am pretty optimistic when it comes to all this, but I think I may actually have ruined a batch of wine. We made a plum wine using 8lbs of plums, a few lbs of sugar, campden, pectin enzyme, tannin, etc. At a week we racked it off of the fruit into glass. Again at a month. It...

Hi all! I have a batch of Apfelwein in primary right now. It was bubbling away for 4 or 5 days. Last night I checked it, and it was no longer bubbling. I took the cap off of the airlock and it shot the little plastic thing inside the airlock all the way up to the ceiling! I took a little...

I've been making beer for only a couple months, but with great results. Just wanted to give props to this website for the wealth of knowledge and motivation it gives to the beginning brewer. What a great community! Kudos! :mug::mug:

I just cracked a bottle of my first brew ever. Some random recipe with a few specialty grains, 1 lb honey and a sh it-load of brown sugar. After the flood in Fargo, these had about 2 extra weeks in the bottle, and they.are.amazing! I don't toot my own my own horn, but I am blown away...

So, I know that apfelwein is supposed to age several months, but I tried a sample after about 1 month. No apple whatsoever, just tasted like the most buttery chardonnay ever. Yuck! 2 weeks ago, this tasted great, but the last couple weeks have really brought out some butter in int...

So, the SMWBO pulled a stellar move and bought me a surprise sixer from the Trader Joe's in Minneapolis. Great lady. Aside from the great pales she picked, there was a Trinity Red Ale. I've tried Killians, and meh. This. Beer. is. Awesome. I'm drunk, and maybe some of you beer...

It seems like the majority of my posts here at HBT come between 2 and 5 o'clock in the morning, when I'm drunk. Anyone else have a similar condition?

Hey all. So I was sitting in a little dive bar earlier tonight, and I spotted a corney keg sitting in the corner. I've really been wanting to start kegging lately. I was a little tuned up, and made an offer to the bartender. Obviously, it's not theres to sell but I figured you don't get...

Hey all. I'm sure this doesn't fit in wine forum, but HBT doesn't have a hooch forum yet! About a month ago I was stuck in South Dakota, hours away from a brewstore, and I had the itch to brew something. I found a little under a gallon of White Grape Pomegranate juice at Wal-Mart, so I...

Hey all. Brand new to the mead forum. I have all the ingredients for my first try gathered. Something along the lines of Malkores. 1 gallon batch. 3 lbs. raw organic South Dakota honey. Cloves. Cinnamon sticks. Yeast, nutrients, energizer, etc. When I was at our "health food...

Hey all. Finalized a big sale yesterday Woo-hoo! I have a little bit of money to finally upgrade. I am for sure buying / making a mash tun and upgrading to a large kettle and a nice burner. Any other ideas on some equipment that might make my life easier? PS: Saw a kit on Norther...

Hey all. I was back in South Dakota for some business and I came across a free keg. Side-of-the-road special! It says Anheuser-Busch on it, and seems to be in very good condition. I know absolutely nothing about kegging, and I am just wondering what else I need to start using it...

http://www.modestbob.com/uploads/water_cooler-1.jpg I was strollin' through the Wal-Mart today, and they had a bunch of things similar to these, but they were a full five gallons. Is there any reason these wouldn't work as a secondary? They were only like 12 bucks and I was thinking of...

So I just had the best brew day ever. Me and my brewing buddy are making the jump to AG, and we did one last extract batch with basically everything we had in our brew drawers. We had been using a really crappy old kettle, some kind of wierd porcelain. When I got there today, he'd...

Hey all. So I was at the LHBS picking up my things, and forgot to crack? my specialty grains. They are closed on Saturdays, and I have my heart set on brewing tonight. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a solution, and I was thinking about throwing the grain (only 1.5...

:off: I'm over it. I am bottling my first 2 batches tomorrow, and had the most horrific dream last night. Upon taking the lids off my ale pales, they both contained a vile-smelling, bubbling green sludge with bugs crawling out. Absolutely horrible. All I've thought about all day is how...

So I just stumbled across the monster of a thread that is "Man, I love Apfelwein." After reading WAY too many pages, I decided it sounded too easy and high-gravity not to try. My question is, could this recipe be used with any other kinds of juice? Or maybe a cocktail of several different...

Hey all. I'm scheduled to bottle my first 2 batches when I get back from Florida :ban: This means two empty vessels that will immediately need to be filled. What do you guys think of this recipe? Sounds pretty interesting and fairly simple. Homebrewing: Espresso Stout (INeedCoffee.com)

So. I have a batch I am leaving in the primary. Going for a honey taste, I added quite a bit about 1/2 way through the boil. After brewing this first batch, I found this forum, where I learned that the honey will probably make the batch a bit thinner. I am more a fan of maltier beers with...

So, I'm off to Florida to escape the bitter cold of North Dakota. I have a 2.5 gallon batch in the primary. Planned on skipping secondary on this one. I read that up to a month in primary is okay, but would it be shorter for a 2.5 gal? Brewed on the 17th, and will be back on the 6th...