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On a trip to Tennessee this weekend I scored three one-liter mini-barrels really cheap. (Would you believe Jack Daniels charges more for a one-gallon barrel than for a full size one?) They need a little TLC so at the moment I'm rehydrating two of them with water and a crushed campden tablet...

I couldn't find a section on HBT for "Half-baked Wild Ideas" so I wasn't really sure where to put this, so here goes. I had a pound of extra light DME that was just lying around begging to be fermented, and two packs of generic lager yeast that came in a kit but I hadn't used, and they were...

Tried my hand at making cheese today--made the 30 minute mozzarella from Ricki Carroll's book, which I got for Christmas. No major problems and very easy...although I think the "30-minute" handle is a bit wishful. It took more like 90 minutes start to finish. I was going slow on heating the...

Okay, so it's not technically about making wine, but... I just finished cutting up and putting away about 35 pounds of freshly killed venison. A friend of ours emailed this morning and said "If you want some fresh meat, come and get it, because it has to go today. Oh, and we loved the...

I came up with this a while back and posted it over in the Premier Malt Extract thread kind of as an experiment. It seemed to work out well and I have just started my second batch, so I'm putting it here with some photos so as to have a home of its own. I apologize in advance for the cross...

I'm bottling some various batches, wine, beer, mead, graff, in some 375ml and 187ml gift bottles for the holidays. The two LHBS's near me are charging anywhere from $1.39 to $2 each for 187's and splits. Tonight I was in a local Wally World which has a pretty large Hispanic population nearby...

I just bought this on eBay and still waiting for it to ship. You chuck it into your drill press, and it turns your press into a bench capper. I've never seen one like it before and Google turned up nothing else like it either. Anybody else ever used such a thing? The price was right; $2.50...

I didn't even post anything about this until I could get it started and try a taste. It sounded like it could just as easily have turned into hooch as something to drink. But so far I've been pleasantly surprised. Down here in the South we have this stuff called "Golden Eagle Syrup,"...

I've been wanting to get this going for a while and finally started it up tonight. Here's what I have: 4 gallons Mott's Apple Juice 2 lbs powdered cane sugar 1 2.2 lb can Premier Malt Extract, light, lightly hopped 2 packs "gold pack" Cooper's brewing yeast Yes, that PME--the stuff...

Last year when my mother-in-law canned some of our backyard pears, she for some reason decided to can some of the juice (actually nectar) as well. Since we have absolutely no use for half-pint jars of pear nectar, I snuck it out the back door and decided to make something useful out of it. I...

That seems to be a common question when it comes to mead :) Anyway, I've been planning to try a gallon of JAOM soon. Today I happened to look at a sachet of mulling spices my wife picked up at the winery that's in the DFW airport. It contains dried orange peel, cinnamon sticks, cloves...

I have searched the forums and found some help but I wanted to get a little more advice if possible. I have a 1-gallon batch in secondary made from the following recipe: 5 pints homemade pear nectar (extra juice canned while making pear preserves) 1 can Welch's frozen white grape juice...