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I had my first infected beer, a wort-in-a-bag kit beer from The Brewhouse. Coincidentally this is the 13th beer I've made from these kits. This one is a 'Munich Dark Lager' which I believe to be a Dunkel. I have been washing my yeast and storing it in the fridge as per the yeast washing...

So, I've been making a bunch of those 'brewhouse' wort-in-a-bag style kits. I have a general question about bottle conditioning. The beer goes into the bottle crystal clear. I bottle condition it for at least 2 weeks but some of my beers are a couple months old. When they go in the...

Got a refractometer from ebay today. I calibrated it with RO water. I tested it against my hydrometer with RO water and they matched. Also with apple juice and they matched. I made a 15 brix solution with 60 grams of sugar and 340 grams of RO water and they matched. However I tested it...

Thought I'd share my labels. My goal was to have easy to make, apply and remove labels and I think I've accomplished that. I size them so I can print 12 to a page and they are easy to cut out with one of these Fiskars portable paper trimmers that my wife uses for scrap booking: I use a...

I'm new to homebrewing / winemaking. My first attempt was a Gewurztraminer from a concentrate kit, starting gravity was 1075 and final gravity was .997. At this SG I added the s-metabisulphite and the potassium sorbate, then degassed with a cordless drill as well as a vacuum pump. Once...