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I've been researching recipes, and I can't find any that quite fit what I need. What I'm trying to get, is when you taste it, it's mostly chocolate, but enough heat to it, that it tastes like one of those hot pepper chocolate squares. I've found there's also a ton of ways to add chocolate...

So I made a batch of what I'm calling "Purplesaurus Rex"... my favorite Kool-Aid flavor from when I was a kid. Grape Lemonade -- It's a blend of 5 gallons of concorde grape juice wine, and 5 gallons of Skeeter Pee. It came out really amazing, a nice grape flavor, with just a little bit of a...

I'm looking to make myself a batch of lime-mojito Pee. I've made a good Lime Pee before, and I'm curious what you guys think would be the best way to add mint flavor. I was thinking a handful of fresh crushed mint leaves in secondary... what do you guys think?

I'm going to be an uncle in a few months, and I thought how cool it would be to make a batch of mead for my nephew to give on his 21st birthday. I'm going to make a blackberry mead (I have ~16 lbs of blackberry honey!), but I'm curious if there's anything special I need to do to ensure that the...

I have 3 gallons of a mango wine that stalled out at 1.040, and I can't get restarted. I was thinking of starting a batch of Skeeter Pee and blending in some of the mango wine to make a Mango Pee (and for sweetening, since it's still sitting at an SG of 1.040). The mango wine is about 9% ABV if...

I was racking several batches of wine, including a batch of Ed's Apfelwein. I was stabilizing them all with campden tabs/sorbate in preparation for backsweetening and bottling. After I got done, I realized I had double-dosed the batch of Apfelwein -- for a 5 gallon batch, 10 total campden tabs...

I want to make this Chocolate-Cherry Mead (http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request.asp) and the only marachino cherries I can find in town have potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate in them -- obviously that's not going to work. Is there any way around those preservatives to get the...

This is what happens when you have two incomes, no kids, a spare bedroom, and lots of time. From left to right, the big carboys in the back: Apfelwein, Joe's Quick Grape Mead, Blueberry Cider, Brown Sugar Apfelwein, more Apfelwein, Strawberry wine. In the one gallon jugs we have Habanero...

I made a batch of Strawberry wine a little while ago (our first fruit wine). A month or so ago, I racked it from my primary into a 5 gallon carboy. SWMBO and I are getting ready to rack it again, but there are a TON of sediments at the bottom. Looking around the carboy, there's 3 to 6 inches...

Hi everyone. I've been lurking on HBT for a couple months, and I've finally felt compelled to post and say hi. I got to taste my very first batch last night, Edwort's Apfelwein. It's barely out ofthe carboy, but holy smokes is it delicious. I can't wait for it to age a little. :) I got into...