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I use QBrew to keep track of a lot of my recipes. One of the recipes is for a mead that my wife likes (technically a melomel). I use whole, sliced oranges added to the must while it heats, and they stay in the primary. The Question: does anyone have any idea as to the QBrew stats for...

If there are substantial unconverted sugars in the wine (i.e. it's sweet as all hell), can you pitch yeast again to start working on those sugars? In how high of an alcohol content environment can yeast live?

Okay, so I bought a racking cane today. In the bag were the hard plastic cane itself, a length of 5/16's flexible plastic tube, a had plastic tube with a black plastic cap on one end, and a hard plastic tube bent towards the end at ~90 degrees. My question: what the hell are that 90-degree...

Well, I just finished bottling my first batch (Extract Kit: Cooper's Dark Ale). From what I gathered and from some of your advice, I kept the following schedule. Primary: 3 weeks Bottle Con: 3 weeks. It's a dark ale, and I was pleased at how clear it was running through the cane. In a...

Someone gave a recipe for homemade wine. They called it brandy, but since there's not still involved, it's really not. Ingredients: ~4 gallons water 10 pounds table sugar 5 pounds fruit 2 pounds raisins around day 12. 7g yeast Shake or stir the wash (mash, whatever) every day for 7...

I've about 4 gallons of beer to bottle towards the end of this week, and I was wondering about the best way to prime. I've seen some tap a tbspn of sugar into each bottle, rack, cap, and shake. Others mix some amount of sugar plus boiled water into the beer, and rack that new mixture...

I was at ye old flea market this morning and found a gross (yes, 144) bottle caps for 1$. I bought them. The LHBS has caps that have some kind of polymer squishy bit to make the seal (and I think it's like 5$ for 50, not 100% on that). Now, these are interesting. The ones I bought this...

So my first batch started to show signs of fermentation within 8 hours, I was pretty pleased. But after two days, the bubbling has basically stopped. Should I be worried? Should I risk opening the fermenter to add more yeast? Or should I just wait it out and see what I get when I move to...

So I'm designing my label for the first beer. And I want to add a small band-label on the neck of the bottle. The label is can't be a straight rectangle, since the bottle is curved. Has anyone worked up a shape that works well with this bottle: Thanks guys. You're help, as...

History: I was not a beer drinker. That is, until I had a pint from our local (now defunct )-: ) brewery. It was called "Blackwater Stout" and it was the beer that made me like beer. Sadly, my first beer was a great microbrew, so I started out as a beer snob. I've still not found one I like...