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Im interested in the tea. What does that do for the mix?

Bust out those books and spill your best welches wine. Ill start. Havent mastered it to date but here we go. 1 gallon batch. 2 cans concentrate juice to a gallon .25 tsp tannin .25 tsp acid blend 6 drops pectic enzyme .25 tsp teast nutrient. Redstar premier cuvue 2-3 wks primary...

It should be fine. If you want to dilute it wont hurt anything. You could do it now. If you want to boil and cool a lot of water with your priming sugar in it that works too.

Depends what you call barleywine. I tend to consider 12% strong ale. If you are shooting toward the 20% mark with partial mash you are looking at about $85 All grain at 21% $65 for http://byo.com/component/resource/article/51-21-alcohol-all-grain-beer Even $85 isn't terrible at that kind of...

Nope I'm just saying you can put lipstick on a smoking hot blond too.

Dog fish head and Yuengling are two I know of. Both known for making terrible fake beer.

Well I went for it. Add 1tbsp of caramel color at bottling. I pulled a half glass from the racking wand then another after adding the priming sugar/color. Unfortunately I'm a cheapskate member so I can't attach photos but I did add the before and after as my profile pic. Take a look.

A buddy of mine is a caramel coloring salesman/rep. He gave me a couple of bottles of caramel coloring. This is the same stuff he sells to commercial breweries to tint their beer. I'm making a cheap corn and 6 row preprohibition lager that I upped the hops in it, and i think I'm going to tint...

I just prime the whole batch like it was going in bottles (usually i fill 2 home draft kegs then bottle the rest). I did have one batch that I over primed due to a boil over and confidence that I could eyeball the loss. After a few days the kegs were rock hard and I had to loosen the taps and...

Just cap it with the tap locked to off. A tap comes with each unit so there is no need or another cap as with the tap a draft. Yeah you can force carb. I only do it in emergency situations since I don't think it tastes quite as good and it costs $$. But you can just chill screw in a cartridge...

Let it Ride. Lager yeast works much more slowly than ale yeast, though yours is really working slowly. Bring it to room temp for about 3 days once you use up about 80% of the sugar to allow the yeast to break up the diacetyl. Then rack to the secondary and lager.

I have used Miller/Coors homedraft "kegs" extensively and like them though they are a little smaller than you are asking about. They run off of 16g CO2 cartridges that are sold for bike tire inflaters. I naturally carb then use the cartridge for dispensing. You can use one cartridge for force...

Did you try some serious aeration beyond swirling? You might also consider yeast energizer, which I find necessary to obtain high gravity with nongrape must or in your case wort. Yeast energizer may be a better option, in your case. It is a powder that contains a variety of nutrients that are...

I was getting ready to make a batch of apfelwein when I started reading this and now I'm torn. I am going to a Russian imperial stout today and this had got me wondering if a 3rd running could be used in place of the mash and the dme (I have a little pilsen dme like a pound). The only yeast I...

I like the home draft thing. I bet it could be refurbished into a cheap alternative to a tap a draft.