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    How do you fine tune your recipes?

    considering it takes about 2 month to get from the trial to result how do you fine tune your receipts? I have just tasted the best beer I have done so far - what should I do with the next batch? Do the exact same thing? Try to eliminate the costly components? I know when the beer is wrong (i.e...
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    3 questions about sparkling wine

    1) would it be a problem to use 2L soda bottles (that I use for beer) to bottle the sparkling wine? Like bottle material leeching into the wine because of few extra percents of alcohol (7.5% instead beer at 5%)? 2) is disgorging absolutely necessarily or is it possible to pour it carefully...
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    Wild Raisin wine

    Does anyone have a good Wild Raisin wine recipe? Also when you usually pick them - do you wait for the whole bunch to become ripe or pick only ripe ones from the bunch?
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    Using honey instead of sugar for priming?

    1) How much more to put vs. sugar? 2) will it give substantial difference in taste? 3) is it suitable to try for any style of beer (not just wheat) or will it ruin it?
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    Newbie's cider troubles

    So I did a cider awhile ago. While the taste of it have improved over time considerably, the problem i have with it is even after 1 year in carboy and 1 year in bottles it still gives a considerable hangover next morning after just one bottle. Also when you drink even half of glass you kinda...
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    What is the best blueberry wine recipe?

    Considering blueberry price for a 23L batch (15-30lbs of berries?) and the shortness of the season, what would be the best recipe for blueberry wine? I would like to make it once and make sure it is the best. Any help is appreciated. :mug:
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    Sparkolloid for clarifying beer

    Have anyone tried sparkolloid to clarify the beer after reracking it from secondary? I have searched this forum and all over the web and could not find any answer (but it used for wine clearing). Will it do the job? Will it not add any bad aftertaste? Will it not kill the yeast?(would be bad...
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    cold crushing & blowback

    After putting 6 gal carboy in a fridge, I have noticed that the liquid levels in S-shaped airlock have reversed and I think it mast have already passed few bubbles of outside air into inside of carboy. Is it a problem and how you deal with it when you need to chill your secondary? Would...
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