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I recently bought a small book at a thrift store next to my work on wine making. A lot of the recipes in it do not call for yeast. Most of the recipes only require about 3-4# of fruit with 4# of sugar and a gallon of water. I know a place to pick several pounds of blackberries and wish to make...

oh ok. i feel better now. thank you. the recipe i read out of the Home Brew Bible said i should still see fermentation in the secondary.

I am trying my first PM hefe. I'm using Bavarian Wyeast. After the third day in the primary the bubbler was going crazy. But then on the 5th day when i transfered too the secondary it stopped. And now it is the third day in the secondary and there is still no activity. Is it time to bottle? The...

yeah i added some extra wheat DME/Barley DME to it also. i think the yeast number was 3650? i know it was bavarian. the wyeast lab website has it on there. i came home today and the bubbler was dancing, about every 35 seconds! im stoked. yeah the cheese cloth worked great. i was reading about...

Do you remove the bags after the boil starts or do you keep them in there for a while? And how many bags do you use? Cause that is a whole lot of grain. I am curious because I would like my next batch to be AG. Thanks.

Yesterday was my first partial mash. 3# wheat LME and 3# barley LME along with 1# of wheat grain. My "local" brew shop is 70 miles, so of course i forget the muslin sock i needed for the wheat grain. i improvised cheese cloth, worked quite well. OG 1.048. The wyeast packet i bought was...

I've read a couple of books on beer brewing but still can not grasp the concept of straining. Is it when you but the batch in the second primary and you strain it through a regular straining and the yeast and whatever other sediment acts as a filter for the beer?

I was wondering what I have to do to convert a 5 Gal recipe to a 3.5 Gal one. I get free 3.5 Gal buckets from my work that they use for icing on cakes. Do i just multiply the amount of every ingredient by .70? I googled and couldnt find any 3.5 Gal batches anywhere.

This is very important. You don't want any extra air getting to your batch.

Well I transfered to the secondary on the 17th, so I have a few more days to go until bottling. I got a taste of it though, wasn't bad at all for warm beer. It has really cleared up too, has a nice amber color to it. I noticed that I lossed almost half a gallon of fluids though. I suppose it...

So if the batch has reached the alcohol level that I want, is there any need to transfer it to a second container for another 10 days? Can't I just bottle it?

Is there a way to measure the alcohol content? Or do we just guess-timate?

Is a bottling bucket the fancy keg containers with the spicket on the bottom of it that you can turn on and off? No I don't have one. Im just using buckets right now. I'm going to sanitize the siphon hose with bleach water and just fill up each bottle one at a time, my friend has a capper. If...

Thanks chillHayze. Does anyone have any idea about how much prime I should use when I go to bottle since I only made two gallons? And am I just suppose to bring that to a boil, put it in another container, then add my batch to it while its still hot, or do I let it cool? Then does it have to...

Imbranato: Thanks for the info on the CO2 layering thing. I'm going to stick to plan, but I will make sure my secondary is a sealed container with a REAL blow off valve purchased at the brewery shop. Chris_K: Thanks for the recommendation on the Apfelwein, it sounds declicious. I'm shocked...

Would you recommend this for a beginner? I can follow directions well and can get all the ingredients, I'm just now familiar with the mashing part. If you don't recommend this for a beginner, is there another recipe you could recommend to me for the holidays. Thank you.

It just a hair line crack running down the center of the lid. I was just trying to make a small one but it cracked across it. And what i mean by air just being able to escape and not get in is that when air wants to get out, enough pressure should build up inside the tank for that crack to...

Yes, I meant I rehydrated the yeast, not wort, sorry. And I don't know why i would want to clone Budweiser, I know it wont tast like it though, I just wanted to try something that used as less amount of ingredients, and what the brew shop had on hand for me. I came home from work today and was...

Hello all. Well today I did it. I brewed my frist batch of beer, all by my self, which isnt probably the best idea for a first timer but hey, my buddies were at work. I used a Budweiser clone I found off the internet. I was a recipe for 5 Gallons but I only wanted to make 2 gallons of beer...

Well I am in need of help. So I Yahoo-ed! and here I am. Now I'm going to try and find a forum with my problem. Thanks.:mug: