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I started out making mead, but it takes so long to make sure that I begin making beer while waiting. now I realize that making me this much simpler. I have a 6.5 gallon carboy. I would like to know if I can make a basic primary with water and honey and yeast and then divide it up into different...

Have you tried after your beer yeast ferments adding ec 1118 with some sugar to your secondary increase your abv?

I saw a documentary about this issue on PBS. Once the offending agent was removed the French no longer had issues with colony collapse syndrome. Obviously in America corporate profit trumps human rights and help. The documentary concentrated on the fact that the scientific evidence from France...

Colony collapse syndrome does not defy scientists. 20 years ago in France they had the same problem. They traced it back to some sort of herbicide/insecticide. They then proceeded to ban the use of this herbicide/insecticide. They stopped having colony collapse syndrome. This same...

Anyone know this bottle...I think the bottle was make in 1955.

Well, here's what it looks like in a glass. It had a decent 1/4 to 1/2 inch head on it, but it doesn't last long. Still tastes tangy and overly sweet, with a slight bitterness from the hops (not enough to overcome the sweet undigested malt taste). I probably won't make this again. But it is...

Thanks for the feedback Thadius. I was never really trying to make a cider though. I love wheat beers, and just had the ec1118 sitting in the fridge, and thought, "Gosh. Wouldn't a wheat beer with like +11% vol be great!? Could I use a wheat ale yeast for primary fermentation and then add 2-3...

Today was two weeks from when I bottled the ec 1118 honey wheat brew, braggot experiment. So I had some with an uncle. Poured like a beer, but had an alcohol vapor smell to it. First impression was a champagne bubble-like flavor. After about 1/2 a glass it felt like an apple cider-ish concoction...

I've got a link showing pics of my ec 1118 honey wheat braggot. I've got to weeks and I can drink it. I used a basic wheat beer all grain recipe and equaled the grains weight in honey. I'm hoping it will taste like a honey wheat ale, with 10%+ alcohol! Give the post 2-3wks and I'll drink the...

I can't figure that out (the clearness)! I previously made a real wheat beer, not a braggot, and before I bottled it, it looked like pee after you've eaten a ton of Vit B complexes. I was really hoping for something really thick and golden. Instead I got glow yellow looks like bud with honey in...

Tomorrow I bottle the stuff. Here's a pic. It pushed most of the hops up, which stuck to the glass. The bottoms got a thick yeast layer. The middle is about as clear as it's going to get I think. Anyway it's been two weeks. After it's bottled I'll try some after another 2 wks go by. I'm going to...

Here's an update on my ec 1118 wheat ale experiment. I did more research and it's basically a braggot. I'm using a honey wheat ale recipe, but instead of 1/2 pound honey, I've bumped it up to 2.5 pounds. I used 2 row, wheat and cara-pils with hops and honey to equal the weight of the grains. I...

On Friday I was in the same boat as you. I've got a 5 gallon bucket and a 6.5 gallon carboy. I racked into a secondary for my first brew and it got infected. The brew store here where I live recommends racking to a secondary, but I'll never do that again. Plus now you can brew two beers...

I was cleaning my carboy by vigorously shaking it back and forth with soapy water inside, while using a perforated stopper as a top. It pushed in until below lip of carboy. Had to use a screwdriver to get it out - putting it through where the airlock goes. It didn't take much to get it in that...

Poor quality photos. Molds are greyish white, small and slowly increasing in number across the top of the brew. These are not bubble formations. Can I siphon the beer between the surface and the sediment on the bottom, or will it taste like mold/bacteria poop? What if I bottle now without primer...

Update: it's bits of oat that are floating up. Now I am also starting to see the formation of a pellicle which is not quite as bad as one of the photos in the yeast and fermentation portion of this site. I've got 4 more days before I bottle. What should I do? It's definitely a mold starting to...

I'm new to brewing, and my wife doesn't want me to spend lots of money making beer. So I started with all grain beers. After I sparge the grain and have my wort and yeast in a fermenter I go back and make Kvass. It's a bread based soda. I re-steep the grain as if I am making another beer, but I...