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I am going to give root beer brewing a shot. I just ordered a pound each of sarsaparilla, birch bark, cinnamon sticks, spearmint, star anise, and orange peel. I also have vanilla extract, sucrose, local honey, and brown sugar and I'm trying to source some wintergreen leaves. I came up with a...

Hey guys, I have never brewed with Mosaic before, but I would really like to give it a shot. I can trade Chinook, Citra, Amarillo, Sorachi Ace, Magnum, Northern Brewer, Cascade, EKG, or Simcoe for some Mosaic. If anyone is interested, please send me a PM.

Yeah, my plan in case it is too dry is to back sweeten with a gallon more of apple juice, but I thought that all wine yeasts would take apple juice to the same final gravity... I assumed they would all ferment 100% of the sugar.

I just added Red Star Champagne yeast to 5 gallons of apple juice. I am expecting this to end up around 6% ABV. I am sure others of you have done this before. How did it turn out?

I have made up my mind that I want to brew a fruit beer when I get home. After doing some more reading, I think I am close to making up my mind. I want a lot of fruit flavor and I am not sure I have ever had a beer like what I am imaginig. Here is what I am thinking though... Fruit will be...

I am thinking of ordering Sprecher Root Beer Syrup. My plan is to mix the syrup in a bucket and fill two liter bottles, cool them down, and use a carbonater cap to apply 35-40 PSI while shaking the bottle until It looks carbonated. Could I then just let the bottles sit for a few hours to settle...

I thought I would share my experience so far with skeeter pee fermentation. A few weeks ago I helped a friend make his first batch. After we were done boiling, I found out that he didn't have yeast energizer or a slurry or starter. We decided to roll with it and we stirred and let it sit for 24...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Apple-100-Juice-Punch-Blend-96-oz/10415873 That is what I uses. I thought of what it tastes like... A watered down Riesling. It is still young,.. About 1.5 months, but I have had apfelwein this young that had more flavor than this. I am thinking of ways to...

I thought I would share with you guys the apfelwein that I just made that didn't come out all the great so that others can avoid doing what I did... I used a Great Value brand apple juice cocktail that tasted really good and I thought would make good apfelwein. It was mostly apple juice, but it...

Thanks for the input Shinglejohn. It will be interesting to hear if anyone else chimes in. p.s- Your avatar looks like you really want to chop someone's head off.

Thanks, I've actually seen that before... I guess a better way to describe what I said is say I have a lower alpha acid hop and I boil it for 20 minutes and I get incredible flavor. Is it possible that the amount of flavor I get from that hop addition would be greater than the flavor of a higher...

This is something I have thought of... Pretend if there were International Flavor Units, similar to IBU's. Is it possible that one hop with 20% AA could contribute 100 IBU's and 30 theoretical IFU's and a hop that contains 10% AA could contribute 50 IBU's and still give 30 IFU's using the same...

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I just posted this on the beeradvocate forum, but I was curious to see if there are going to be different schools of thoughts between the two forums. There is no right answer to this question, I just want to see what you guys would do, before I decide how I am going to do my experiment... I...

After seeing the skeeter pee thread and realizing how inexpensive it is to make, I figured I should give it a shot. I have read some discussion on which yeast to use. I already have an apfelwein (made with Great Value apple juice cocktail) fermenting and I was considering using that yeast slurry...