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Thanks for the explanation. This is my first time ordering from AHB and seeing the HBU pack.

Morning all, I'll be brewing this AHS Indian Brown Ale over the weekend: https://austinhomebrew.com/assets/images/RCPPDF/03019.pdf The hops for this recipe seem a little light to me. It's a 10 HBU pack at 60 minutes and 1 oz Hallertau at boil out. I have left-over Palisade and Warrior hops...

Hi All, I'd like some assistance tweaking an extract recipe. A buddy of mine bought a Brewer's Best Summer Ale extract kit. He never got around to making it and I offered to take it off his hands. Summer Ale's aren't my beer of choice at the moment. If possible, I'd like to turn it into an...

Hi All, I'd like some assistance tweaking an extract recipe. A buddy of mine bought a Brewer's Best Summer Ale extract kit. He never got around to making it and I offered to take it off his hands. Summer Ale's aren't my beer of choice at the moment. If possible, I'd like to turn it into an...

It's a really great place. You can sign up for a guided "hard hat" tour on Fridays but you have to book well in advance. Wisconsin loves spotted cow but you really can't beat Fat Squirrel.

Thanks for the advice. What do you think about racking onto honey once or a couple times? Also, if I wanted to keep a little sweetness in the wine could I rack onto a pound of honey and throw a few campden tablets in after a day or so? Thanks, GoleyBrew

Hi all, I'm new to brewing and brand new to any type of winemaking. This past Tuesday I made a 5 gallon batch of: 5 Gallons Organic Apple Juice 5 Cans Organic Apple Juice Concentrate 10 Cups Dark Brown Sugar 2 Packets D47 Wine/Mead Yeast I have a 1 gallon test batch from a few weeks ago. It...

Well I made a 5 gallon batch last night and I have another question. After a few weeks could I rack onto a 1-1.5 lbs of honey? Would there be enough residual yeast in the secondary to push up the ABV and/or sweeten the wine? Thanks, GoleyBrew

It's been a couple weeks and my fiancé and I decided to take a gravity reading. It's gone from 1.082 to 0.998. It tastes amazing. At the moment it tastes like an apple sweet Riesling. My fiancé is insisting I make a 5 gallon batch for Christmas. I may experiment with a cinnamon stick in the...

Good to know. Might have been fate that my LHBS didn't have any mead yeast in stock.

Quick update. Here's the ingredient list. 1 gallons Indian Summer - pasteurized - no preservatives 1 cans Cascadian Farm Organic Apple Juice - Concentrate 1 Cups Dark Brown Sugar Lalvin D 47 Yeast

Thanks for the response. Hoping to get the ABV around 10%. I'm brewing a Rogue Oatmeal Stout clone this weekend and would love to try this at the same time.

Would this work...and would it be turn out well? I've been brewing beer for a little while now and my fiance would like me to make a small batch of hard apple cider. 1 gallon apple juice 1 can apple juice concentrate 1 cup dark brown sugar Sweet mead yeast Thanks! GoleyBrew

Nice. Well it seems like the consensus is to steep the grains a bit longer than the instructions say.

I think I'm going to follow Mcwilcr's advice and steep a little longer. On subject off subject... Could you mini-mash using steeping bags? Once the 45/60min is up just pull out the steeping bags, rinse with sparging water and have the leftover wort... or would there be too much leftover...