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  1. spacey

    First Time All Grain Brewing Mistake

    First All Grain Brewing Mistake: My first all grain brewing day was yesterday - Northern Brewer's "Summer Squeeze Lemon Shandy" (9.5 pounds of grain) I misunderstood the instructions from Northern Brewer and instead of pouring 1 gallon of 170F water into the mash tun for batch sparging, I...
  2. M

    Help First Time Set Up - Everything Froze

    Just bought first kegerator & hookedup Dual 1/4 barrel slims. Co2 tank in the kegerstor set up. Got it going fine per instructions. Had about 10 beers poured off it today. Thought it was all good. Then no beer. Opened kegerator to investigate and co2 is frosted over, regulator frosted over and...
  3. A

    Fruit wine 23%??

    I recently brewed a batch of Strawberry Wine. I was hoping to end up with a nice dessert wine flavor. OG 1.08 I knew it hadn't turn out as I had hoped when my FG reading was 0.90. Somehow it became very dry and had a very strong alcohol flavor to it. I had let it ferment for 4 months (I've...
    • AdamRay
    • Thread
    • beginners brewing fruit wine high abv high alcohol high og low fg rookie-mistake strawberry strawberry mead
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Winemaking Forum
  4. C

    Changing primary fermenting buckets in first 48 hours?

    Hi all I'm in a little bit of a pickle. Yesterday was brew day and the first time I did 5 gallons (as opposed to 2.5). I thought my fermentation bucket was 5.5 gallons but its actually literally exactly 5.05, so when I poured the wort and pitched the yeast, the level was almost flush with the...
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