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I've got 15lbs of local Wildflower honey and I see fresh figs in the store :D This will be my first mead, and I'm interested in a simple recipe using all fresh figs. Any suggestions on amounts? Figs are light on flavor, so I was thinking: - 15lbs Wildflower honey - 2.5 - 3lbs fresh Mission...

I'm in St. Petersburg / Tampa area and would like to know if anyone knows where to get Fresh (aka Unpasteurized) cyder. Does anyone know? ;) Thanks in advance!

If I rack to a Keg, do I want to 'burp' the keg, or do I want to let any additional CO2 build up in the keg? This will be the time for conditioning, and my intention is not to drink it yet.

What is acceptable from off the shelf apple juice? ascorbic acid? calcium lactate? Maltodextrin? Is from concentrate ok?

I just brewed a Belgian Dark Strong ale, 2 1/2 gallons boiled, 3 in the fermenter. After about 18 hours I had about 1" or a little more of head/krausen on my beer, but I noticed that the beer was layed with the heavy wart at the bottom (I didn't get a good mix when I syphoned the wart into...

OK - so I have a Belgian Dark Strong ale that I boiled. It called for 9.9 pounds of Light Golden and 1.5lbs of Dark Candi Sugar. I boiled 2 1/2 gallons of water, and added 3 to the primary fermenter. My starting gravity was 1.115 but the recipe expected 1.088. I'm thinking I just got...

So, this is my first home brew. Please forgive me if this has been answered over and over again. I did a brief forum search. Its about 3 days into primary fermentation and what started as white foam has turned into white foam, with what looks to be large spots of nasty green phlegm. It...