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I am relatively experienced brewer, but only rarely get into wines. Usually I just follow directions, but sometimes life gets in the way a little. Anyway, I am making a Ken Ridge gewurztraminer kit. I put it on about a month ago, but didn't transfer to secondary because I got too busy. It...

About a week ago I started a blueberry mead. After much reading I decided not to heat the honey (but I did sulphite for 24 hrs due to the berries) and to use staggered nutrient additions. After maybe 4 or 5 days (I need to keep better notes!) I noticed that there was a distinct sulphur aroma...

Like the title says, has anyone in Canada sent water away for mineral analysis? Where did you send it, and how did that work for you? The reason I ask is that I get my water out of a ditch on the side of the highway (an artesian spring to be specific), and the water seems very soft. I would...

So my attempt at making pin cherry wine has failed. I now have a little over half a gallon of what smells an awful lot like balsamic vinegar. I'm not fully sure of what happened (actually I do know that it must be an acetobacter infection, I just don't know how that happened). My question is...

On the most recent all grain batches I have made, I've noticed that the FG has been staying a little higher than I would like (around 1.017 to 1.020), so in trying to drop this down a little, my most recent batch I did a 90 minute mash around 149 to thin out the final product just a little. I...

Okay I'm not a complete noob, only a partial noob, however after todays brew session, i realize that I don't know as much as I thought I did. I look forward to any and all suggestions I tried to make my first pumpkin beer (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/samhain-pumpkin-ale-140674/). After...

So after a little lurking around on the forums, I decided that i really needed an immersion chiller, i figured for 5 imp gallon batches with water that is quite cold most of the year that 25' of 3/8" would do me. As it happened, a friend was able to donate the tubing, and all i needed was some...

Hey there all. I just put one gallon of pin cherry wine into primary, and considering the effort it took to pick 4 pounds of pin cherries, not to mention the time it will take before it is ready, it would be a real shame to see it gone in a week. I was kind of wondering if instead of...