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Now hang on. My fermenter has basically two active items in it. A fluid of juice, water, and added sugar. And chunks of fruit. You are saying that the chunks of fruit do NOT have any sugar to add to the fluid? Then what would be the point of pressing the must later? I know I used chunks of...

How can it be? There is still plenty of ripening to be done, that is why fruit turns brown, and gets sweeter. Or do the complex starches that later turn into sugar have the same SG as sugar? Or the same refractometer reading as sugar? I wouldn't think so. But, when you calculate the amount...

I brew fruit wines, on the peels, for maximum flavor and color. And efficiency too, pressing after all the enzymes have ripened the pulp has to allow for better extraction. Like mashing for beer. But I've never had any confidence in checking sugar levels by specific gravity. What with the...

This batch of beer took long time to ferment, perhaps, as I've read elsewhere, the cideryness dissipates with age. If it ever was there.

I think I got mine from Bob's Red Mill in um Nebraska? A five gallon pail was about 33#, delivered for umm $40? Then it needs malting, tumbling in the clothes washer in a pillow case, winnowing the cyanide containing rootlets out, roasting, mashing (another trial!). All in all not worth the...

I've malted 'pearl barley' from the health food store, and seen amaranth there. And it grows in my back yard, volunteers for bird seed. Leafs are good salad too. But I yanked them all this year as weeds in the tater patch, hard to tell them apart until the seed heads show. Maybe next year I...

Weeelll, alls I know about gluten free in regards to oats is that oats don't bother me. And some beers don't either, I'm thinking the commercial filtering might take the proline chains out of some, but how do I know one from a deadly one? My problem isn't as much digestive as it is chest pain...

Doesn't Teff have gluten? I'll look before I brew. But back towrads the OP, anybody try DPPIV ? It is an enzyme available in pills from health food stores. A couple of the pills might have plenty of the same active enzymes as clara-ferm. Both are from aspergillus niger. There have been some...

I found a formula on the net that uses SG and Brix for finished wine. Not absolutely accurate, but close enough for comparison of personal production. Tools needed, hydrometer and refractometer. ( brix x 4 ) + 1000, -SG. divide by 3.3 = ABV Sample: loquat wine, sg 998, brix 7.5 So...

I've tried Dragons Tale, tried malting my own sorghum even. It's still sorghum. So next I tried oat flakes fro, the health food store. The beer had possibilities, but what a glop of oat meal ended up in the compost bin! I ordered Malted oats from Northern Brewers. And roasted some in the oven...

Rice flour and tapioca flour are about $1/lb at the Chinese/Oriental groceries around San Diego. Rise flour is a good substitue for 'cake flour' which is low-gluten flour. Bread flour is high gluten. Interesting about the Clarex. My gluten prob is chest pains, but I seem to handle a couple...

I've made 20 batches in an un-modified cooler by sparging in my bottling bucket. I did use a copper tube that goes into the spigot in the bucket, across the bottom, bent 90°, then a clamped on mesh. I drilled a small bung to hold the tube in the spigot. The tuse goes all the way across to help...

Don't brew bigger batches, brew bigger beer! Malt takes up lots less room if you leave out all that water.

SG= specific gravity, what you read on the hydrometer. OG= Original Gravity, what the beer measures when transferred to the fermenter. FG= Final Gravity, what the beer finally, after an interminably loooong time, ferments out to. What was your mash temp? You want it to be about 152 for that...

I'm guessing that maybe you read the wrong scale on your hydrometer. Ain't no way no how that an extract recipe can be off that much- you did stir the extract in, not leave it in the bottom of the kettle? Did you leave three cans in the trunk?

If it's not cap size but neck ring size, the wing cappers use a pair of reversible metal 'jaws' for the different necks. You might need pliers to pull them out and push them back in.

The original use of "She Who Must Be Obeyed"was referring to an evil empress- as in Harry Potter were the mere mention of the name will bring down the wrath of that consiment evil. So the implication is that SWMBO is not merely a wife, but an evil empress. I believe the original book was...

Minimize the sediment in the biottles by maximizing the sediment in the carboy- wait for your beer to clear before bottling. If you are getting sediment in your bottling bucket, you need to wait another week.

Hmm, maybe if he bottled at 100° ? Higher temps sure do speed things up. Especially if he isn't following the 1-2-3 system, he may have lots of yeast to rapidly eat lots of sugar...

DO NOT EVER POUR YOUR SAMPLE BACK IN. That way lies contamination. Drink your hydrometer sample, it's safer that way. Also, taste it at every step- the wort, the fermenting beer, at every hydrometer test, etc.etc. Learn what is normal, so you can spot unusual happenings early.