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Who has made wine from concord grapes? What was it like? This year our concord grapes really did well. My wife made concentrate grape juice and jelly. She was getting tired and we did not want to waste the grapes. So I read a little about people using them and if it sits on the skins the net...

I am sitting here watching moonshine r's drinking one of the last two homebrews I have. It has been over a year since I made a beer. This one is a porter. This has been the best beer I have brewed. Used chocolate and coffee malt in this one. I had just switched to all grain and made three...

A friend wants to start a micro brewery and restaurant. I'm still fairly new to all grain. But he asked me to look into equipment, grain, hops, and yeast cost. I'm wondering if any one here would be able to help me on some of these. This will be in the quad cities or maybe LeClaire IA. He is...

I am brewing a Trappist right now. Hit the mash temp. Collected 9 gallonn instead of the 8 or 8.5 gallons beersmith called for. No stuck sparge though so I'm happy. I will get the recipe up in a few minutes.

I managed to get a free grain mill from a friend. His parents actually ground flour with it. Got to love the motor they found and put on it. The coupling was missing so it cost me $6 at the farm store for a discontinued Lovejoy style coupling.

Trying to set up a group buy. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f174/group-buy-davenport-ia-315789/

Trying to get a bulk buy set up. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f174/group-buy-davenport-ia-315789/

I just picked up 2 sacks of 2 row, 15 pounds of speciality grains, and a bunch of hops. I want to brew a triple, a barley wine, bourbon ale, and an ipa I just don't know which one to lose my all grain virginity on. I need to brew a mild beer before my barley wine. So that the wlp099 yeast has...

I'm thinking of doing a bulk buy. I will have the grains delivered toIA a business in Davenport. I can possibly have them pick up there or at my house in Camanche IA. I live about the 15 miles from I80 at the Mississippi River. If the interest is here I will forward you the price list.

It starts with a keg as the boil kettle. I will be putting a stainless pot in my rubber maid 10 gal cooler. Plan on a RIMS for the mash tun and a 5500 watt element in the boil kettle. Do you realize how nasty a keg can get after a few years? My buffing pad gave up about the...

I'm wondering what most of you do when bottling a higher alcohol beer? I have been purchasing the higher alcohol kits and adding a little extra fermintables to the kits. The 3 kits I brewed so far had a 9.3 # of extract and I have added an extra pound or so to each of them. I only bottles the...

Thought I would check in here and say hello to everyone. Now I'm off to ask my first question here.