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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...

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...

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 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.

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...