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Sometime between last fall and this spring my hop ID tags have gone missing! I have a Hallertau and a Cascade. Pretty much all I know is that one is a little darker green than the other. Any advice on identifying which is what would be greatly appreciated.:mug:

Thanks for all the advice! I guess I'll just have to wait till next year. Also I think first year batch of pears had a chance to freeze while still on the tree. This year the pears had not frozen. That could make a huge difference between a pear wine and an ice pear wine.

I pressed about three gallons of pears from my in-laws tree. Put them in my sanatised brew pot with 4 crushed campden tabs and let it sit for 24 hrs. I tasted the juice and then siphoned off the juice into my glass carboy, pitched my yeast and away it went. I went to bottle My cider and took a...

Soda and beer have much different carbonation ratios. Soda being on the higher end. I would certainly think if you can dispense a chilled soda without foaming off the head then in theory you should be able to pull a beer. I recommend the carbonation chart in Home Brewing For Dummies, it sounds...

Your good to pitch the entire packet, the more active healthy yeast cells the better. Yeast naturally duplicates itself until it runs out of sugar (food). Yeast will stop duplicating itself when a couple of factors occur, one: the alcohol content gets to high and becomes a toxic environment...

Can I add cream of tarter to my cider also? How much should I add per gallon? What will acid do if I add that? I havent herd of that before. Do you know of any articles I can read up on? Thanks for being patient with me on this one, I appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks Greg, I have never heard acid blend what does that do and should I add tannin and acid blend into the secondary? Will this help the wine mellow out and age better?

I decided to pasturize because I don't agree with the old sayind that they didn't do it in the old days. I want controll over the yeast and be sanitary just incase I want to reproduce the same batch exactly. And whats with saying that we have a weaker imune system because of pasturization...

Im calling this one the Taylor Perry because its the name of my brother in law who comented that it is a good name "perry" I picked about 100 lbs of pears off my father in law's tree and juiced them. I got about 5 gallons of juice. I put the juice in the brew pot and heated to 160 to kill...

I am making a Perry apple cider it will be about 2/3 pairs 1/3 apples mix of sweet red and tart yellow. I am not sure on the brand of apples and pairs because I picked them from my father-in-laws trees. I plan to cut out the dark spots and run them thru the juicer. After the juicer it's into the...

here is a complete starter kit I found on overstock.com and they also have brew kits that are a good deal Gold Complete Homebrew Beer Equipment Kit | Overstock.com

whoops I messed up

This Beer turned out awesome! Nice color, admirable alcohol content at about 5% by vol. 1.052 og 1.010 fg. 4 Glasses later I couldnt remember how to spell my name. I shared it with a few of my very close friends that had admited they couldnt tell it was home brew. One of my friends even said...

Sounds like a good find, I am excited also. Some day soon I hope to own that kind of equipment. I am using my kitchen Stove for my boil, it does a nice job as it is natural gas and has a 35000 Btu burner on the front left. Gas sure does make a big difference in a boil. I am going to buy a...

For a 3 gallon batch just take the ingredients for a 5-6 gallon batch and cut them in 2/3rds you really cant mess up. As long as there is hops, malt, and yeast it should make beer.:mug: