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This was my final recipe: 6 qts Apple Juice. 34oz 100% pure pumpkin. 6.5lbs honey 2qts water. Lalvin 71B 1122 OG 1.099 Didnt do anything special with the pumkin, though the cider i started the next day I roasted it with brown sugar before mixing with the apple. Heres my question, the mead...

Sweet potato? How does that work?

Usually the apartment is kept between 70-75F.

Any suggestions on what yeast to use? I want something that'll ferment with a clean taste, but only to about 12-14%.

I was planning on using 100% pumpkin. Some of what I was reading suggested that adding spices during primary could produce off flavors. My plan was to ferment with just the pumpkin, apple and honey. After fermentation mulling the brew in spices, then bottling.

After my first batch turned out drinkable, albeit a tad on the strong side, I wanted to make more. (My recipe was a simple 2 Gallons preservative-free, not-from-concentrate apple juice and 7 lbs of honey and Premier Cuvée Dry Wine Yeast from Red Star) My plan is to not ferment without the...

I just went to the store and picked up a Bell's Special Cream Stout and a New Holland's Plead the 5th Imperial Stout. I hope I like it. I had an Old Rasputin Russian Imperial last weekend. That was pretty good.

I just took a trip to KS; I brought along a 12-pack of Oberon with me for my ladyfriend that lives there. She quite enjoyed it.

There have only really been 2 beers I haven't been able finish. One was so long ago I don't remember the beer itself but the brand was Leinenkugel. The other, I had last weekend: Sam Adams White Water IPA. The pine taste was so strong, it was like drinking a Christmas Tree. Also: I finished...

For my age (22), I don't have a lot of people to talk about when it comes to beer/liqour suggestions. Most kids my age drink the cheapest they can find to get drunk off of; Not me. Recently I splurged and bought a bottle of Johnnie Walker Green Label and a bottle of Blue Label. (Haven't gotten...

I just bought my a 4pack of that. I was told it was probably the last 4-pack of it for sale in Michigan. I was talking to the owner of the party store near where I live and he was telling me about it. He had a guy prepay for it and drive 3 hours to come pick it up. Evidently there were over...

I hate to bump, but no one answered a follow-up question: Since I'm using an airlock and a half-gallon glass chug: Would it harm anything if I took the airlock off and tasted the mix? Or should I just wait it out. I was hoping to get an idea of what the mix tasted like during different times of...

The yeast was suggested to me by an employee of the brew shop near where I live. I told him what I was doing and he suggested it because it leaves a very light taste when its done. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. It is a duck. It just may be a Eurasian Wigeon instead of a...

It sounds stupid to you because you don't understand my motivation for doing this. Its not to just 'brew', if thats what I wanted I would've done so. Where is the fun and sense of adventure in taking a recipe from someone else, or doing what everyone else is doing? You know it'll work, it'll...

Sure I could've made a more drinkable beverage just as easily, it just wouldn't have been as fun. ; ) I knew from the get-go that what I was doing was going to taste like crap, I had no expectation otherwise. And its not really about doing it the hard way, its more about wanting to see and...