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I recently thought about looking for hard tea recipes. I love to brew beer but I do not have a lot of time as of late, or money. I haven't done and research on hard tea yet, but I ALWAYS make iced tea in the summer. My recipe goes: 12 Lipton Tea bags 1/4 cup Agave nectar 2 quarts water...

Well I'm building a brew stand, to keep all my stuff together and hopefully make it easier for me to brew all grain and save me some time. Here is a rough picture of it so far. And here is an idea sketch: I'm on a really low budget, so some of my ideas are to save money, 1...

Transferred a cranberry wine into a secondary a few weeks ago, these little white specks just popped up on the neck. Have any ideas what these may be? Not sure what it is, but I was thinking I should rack it to another carboy just in case. Sean

I need a way to press my blueberries, I've been following this recipe: Welcome to Beer-Wine.com I need to press the bag and get the most juice I can to make 5 gallons. I did the same thing with a batch of cranberry wine and came up a liter short and had to top off wine some wine. I...

Is this a bad thing? There are new vines starting just below the soil on all 3 of my plants, but I never cut back the old vines. Should I? I've searched but no luck. Sean

Well... this is how I brew in NH. It's a wee cold in here (40 degrees) but all I needed was an aquarium heater and a trash can! Transfered into a secondary carboy today after 7 days, its almost there! Anyone else forced to ferment in the cold like this? Sean from NH

SO, I'm stepping into all grain. I just went to home depot and purchased much of the plumbing hardware I needed to make a MLT from a cooler. All I needed was a cooler now. Then it hit me. 6+ years ago my family sold their house and boxed and moved most of our possessions to our warehouse at...

I have a gallon of pressed cider from my local apple orchard, and 1 packets of cotes de blanc yeast and 1 packet of champagne yeast. Any chances I can get a good cider out of this? Any advice? Sean

Alright... I have 3 gallons of stout dying to get bottled. Its been more than a month since final gravity so I REALLY REALLY need to bottle it. I have a busy job and haven't managed to find enough time to clean enough bottles and bottle it all. BUT, this past weekend I tried a stout on cask...

I recently brewed an all grain stout. It fermented for 5 days and was only a couple points from final gravity. I then racked into secondary. Can I clear at 50 degrees for 1 week, then bottle and age for 1 week, so I can bring the stout on vacation? Anyone else do this before? Sean From NH

A little back story. One failed extract brew under my belt, I decided to do an all grain batch. Dry stout, minimal equipment. I basically made it up as I went along for almost 9 hours, got to my kitchen at 8, was down maybe at 5, I have no idea I was butchered. Mainly... My lauter-tun DIDN'T...

SO after today, I might end up with 1 or 2 five gallon buckets full of fresh cranberrys. Anyone have suggestions on how to use these ;-) Sean

I have a Winter Warmer that'll be ready in a couple weeks, and though it is a clone I'd love to hear some other brewers opinions! Who around here has beers to swap? Sean

Racked from bucket to carboy last Friday and I come to work and find this. Its been in a 70 degree office. Should I re rack and keep it somewhere cooler?! Sean

I'm about to work out a deal with a guy for a table top press he has been using to press a very tart berry. Its called shizandra berry. Just wondering if its a good idea to go used on these things? Sean

I've read that keeping beer in a primary bucket for more than 7 days can be bad, its been almost 10 for me. If I don't transfer today, I won't be able to until Monday... and the White Labs people said not to rack until 10 days fermentation. Tastybrew calculated my OG at 1.056 and my FG at...

I brewed a batch a little while ago, it was a chocolate porter/stout. I didn't realize at the time that my gravity was well over 1.060 (like 1.070 me thinks) and I pitched a packet of Nottingham ale yeast. It krausened and bubbled out the airlock slowly (though there was alot of krausen) and...

I'm planning a small gallon batch of mean, was wondering what I should look for in water quality? Also, once the mead clears and is ready for bottling, is it ready to drink? Or do I have to lay it down ALSO like wine? Sean

Well, I brewed up a little test batch July 3rd. I have just enough bottles for one 5 gallon batch, but am short on cash and didn't want to spend money I didn't really have on 49 bottles of one kind of beer. I kinda rushed myself, OG was alittle low and I feared after filling up my gallon jug...

I live in a tiny studio, and don't drink enough beer to justify a 5 gallon corny. I want to use the 5l mini kegs but, as I am a cheap skate, I'm pondering building my own faucet pressure system for them. Anyone have one that they can take pictures of for me? I have many misc. air fittings a...