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So I made my first AG over the weekend and since I have never done one I dont know how it went but I would say it went well. I just have a few questions regarding mashing and rinsing grains..I my target temp was 152 so i heated water at 176 and it got me 153 so it was pretty close. I did that...

Im looking for a smooth wine witch i am going to degas and bottle in wine bottles

yeah 1.010 sorry...it has been fermenting between 68 and 75 degree..we had a few hot days and it went up as high as 75 on my fermenter...do you think that could be the reason? maybe to high?

I made apfewein using edwort recipe on 5/17, I just took a gravity reading and is 1.10 after a month. I did not want to put the sample back into the better bottle so I drank it but i was not too impress. Its not sweet at all, its smells like pinot grigio but it does not have the wine after...

After 2 days of bubbles on my air lock it completly stopped...I have it on a better bottle so I can see inside and I can see alot of action inside but no bubbles are coming thru the air lock...I checked for leaks and it seems pretty tight..is that normal?

I plan to make this weekend but I'm going more for a wine not a cider. Can i do the same process as the cider but degas the wine once it has finished fermenting and it has cleared.

After I posted the question I realized the same thing you just said...I just need to know what type of Efficiency i get with my equipment before I can understand the software. Thank you so

Sorry if this has been asked before but I am new to AG and I just bought beer Smith software to help me with it but where in the software I can find my Efficiency according to my grains...I see the efficiency % but is always 75%. I thought it would be better if it gave me the efficiency...

Ok for example my cream ale was an extrac receipe with a OG of 1.50 and a final 1.20. I had it in my primary for a week. i took the reading and I exacly 1.20. I did have a hard time keeping warm so I bought a heating belt and according to the term I had on the bottle it read 70 but not sure...

Thank you guys...I have been taking a reading on my 7th day and all of them have been done or close to it but you guys are right I am trying light beer and maybe not waiting it out. I am kegging so after the 1 week in primary and 2 weeks in secondary I have been kegging the beer and drinking it...

I am on my 4th beer and I am getting pretty discourage. I don’t know if this hobby is for me. I don’t know what I am doing wrong but so far every beer has pretty much smell the same (yeasty smell) my first beer was the best one so far is was a Coors light clone and it was ok but it smelled...

Stainless Steel Kenmore 4.6 cu. ft. Compact Refrigerator I want to make it into a kegaretor but I need the wire diagram to drill the hole for the tower...Anybody know where I could get it....

It looks just like that but alot more of it...Wow thanks for posting that picture it makes me feel alot better about my beer now...

I have a cream ale on my secondary for 2 weeks now and a week ago I checked the gravity getting access to the beer with a thief. I sanitized the thief with star san but I just sprayed it really quick and rinsed with water. I know i dont have to rinse I always do. A week later I noticed a 2...

Is 5lb CO2 tank enough to keep beer fresh for a long time? if it is why buy anything bigger. Not sure why anybody would by a 10 or 15 lb CO2 tank

How long can you keep the beer in a keg fresh? If I put my 5gls in the keg and drink a few glass here and there, how long before it goes bad?

Not too Hoppi...any suggestions?

I did use hopped liquid malt extract 3.3lb...plus some aroma hops. so the fact that I ended up with 6 gls is that going to affect the alcohol volume? my SG was 1.050 and after 5 days my reading is 10.20...

I bought 5gls of water to make my next patch of beer...how do I end up with almost 6gls after 40min of boiling in my primary. I boiled with 2 gls and put the other 3 in my primary...Once I poured the boiled wort I ended up with almost 6gls....I dont get it..