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Ok my giant brain home brewers,what is the formula for converting malted grain to malt extract?Example 1pound of dme =?pounds of malted grain. I am looking to make a barleywine using rye and rye malt and haven't found a malted extract for rye.

Morning folks, I just finished starting my first batch of Barley wine. Problem is o.g. is 1.150 should I starting adding more grape juice or what? Yes folks the recipe called for grape juice.This a 1gal. batch ,I have no problem with going to 2or3 gal.

Wow should have known. THANX

I have to ask when a recipe calls for frozen juice concentrate,do I add required water or is it just the concentrate? Also can it contain anything other than asorbic acid?:tank:

This is my first real season at home brewing.I am confused can meads be bottled in beer bottles or should they be put in wine bottles? At present I have apx. 6 cases of empty beer bottles and access to all the empty wine bottles I want.:tank:

My local big box grocery store sells pear juice no additives for less than 5 dollars a quart. Wish I could be more help but first attempt at perry was real weak.

To my fellow brewers please I could use some help.Getting ready to rack4-1 gallon batches,cyser/graf,bracket,honeyale,and a tart cherry mead with 1lb.of honey and10oz.of D.M.E guess you could call it a cherry port memomel. I know what to add to cyser/graf,the honey ale,and the cherry port.What...

OK lets try this again.Sunday 4/1 gallon batches Cyser/graf,Bracket,HoneyAle,and a variation on JoesGrape swapped in tart cherry juice and afew other goodies.I know this isn't a mead Edworts Apfel vine, So that makes 7gallons mead,4gallons hard cider,1gallon wine for me this year. 276.25

Just finished starting another batch that makes10 gallons this year

just got done starting 4 /1 gallon batches of mead.A cyser/graf, bracket,honey ale and last but not least a modification of Joe's quick Grape mead.I changed out grape juice to tart cherry and lessened the honey and added 10 oz. of DME. I hope to end up with something like a cherry port.Anyone...

Got 2 samplers of honey ale just about done . Fixin to start my first try at a cyser graf ,also starting a variation on Joe's Quick Grape Mead . Let you fine folks know how it goes.Local brew pub brewer is teaching a mead making101 class for our local bee association

1gal.Joes Quick Grape Mead

Have a quick question, fellow mead makers. If I make a cyser recipe and change out the apple cider and swap in cherry cider is it still a cyser ?:confused:

This sounds interesting and along the the direction I want to try.Am I understanding correctly just tea bagging the hops for a determined amount of time

Evening, Iam trying to convert two beer flavors to a braggot recipes.I know there are plenty of recipes for cyser and pumpkin meads but how do I create the wheat and hop components or even try to determine the varieties or combinations.Is it just a whole lot of trial and error or is there some...