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My friend and I love red wines, our most favorite are red river pinot noirs. We love Bell Glos and Meiomi. We have been contemplating buying a premium red wine kit which is closest to this style. We want to pay between $150-$200 for the kit. We considered buying frozen must from Russian...

Hey folks- I'm a big beer brewer, but due to unforseen financial issues and finally getting at least one local friend interested in making our own alocholic products, I have been making several different batches of homemade wine out of fruits. My next venture is an Orange wine, but I have a...

I am probably going to bottle my True Brew Irish Stout this afternoon. Thought about adding some coffee to the bottling bucket before doing this. Anyone for or agains this? I think my girlfriend has some pretty good quality coffee in the freezer. If I should do this, here are my questions...

I can't lie, blueberries are in my top three fruits I like, but I was drinking my Amarillo Pale Ale the other day which has conditioned nicely and has quite a unique flavor to say the least. While drinking it, I thought to myself, I bet this would be awesome with a hint of blueberry extract...

Slash- I hate to say it, but it may be your tastebuds. You need to have some people taste your beers and without telling them what is wrong, simply ask them to comment on it as if they were critiquing it. I had one of my Amarillo IPAs last night and while I was enjoying it I thought to myself...

What type of BK are you using? Is it possibly leaching some type of metal during your boil? If it is aluminum, did you season it before your brew? Did you clean it with Oxyclean (that's a no-no). Sorry about bombarding you with questions but I want to figure this out with you!

Figure out what piece of equipment you are NOT using with the Apfelwine (sp?) and that could be the culprit. Could it possibly be your mash tun? Did you rinse the Oxyclean or PBR off good enough?

Also, with the copper chiller, are you just throwing in at the end, or do you boil it for last 10 minutes? Are you sure it is 100% copper without lead? Any welds?

You're obviously no rookie as you seem to have an idea of what the problems may be, so I would suggest a couple of things: 1. I think it is still your water. Next brew, go to the store and buy 10 gallons of bottled spring water. (Not distilled). Use this and only this. 2. Get a partial...

I have tried several methods and always seem to prove too impatient for most. I recently decided to use my funnel (for my carboy) and I stretched a 1 gallon paint strainer bag from Lowe's over the top. The bags cost $1.47 for a pack of two, are reusable, and the elastic at the top stretched...

I think that is my favorite they brew right now. They just released a Ship Island Ale which is extremely light (probably a good ladies beer). And they are also preparing a Seasonal for the fall/winter to come out soon.

I hold my head in shame and promise to never do it again. My self inflicted punishment shall be to drink every bottle I open tonight until I pass out.

No plans as of yet, except storage. I may make an amber ale. My big plan in the works right now is to buy a grain mill. Lazy Magnolia told me they would sell me grains in bulk at cost which would smoke anything I can order online (45 lb Maris Otter for $50!). Once I have the mill, I can get...

I cleaned and sanitized my counter, chooping sheet, knife peeler and spoon. I dipped all of the cucumbers in Starsan. I skinned all the cucumbers, cut them in half and used a spoon to scrape the seeds out. I then sliced the cucs up into julian style strips and then fed them through a...

Just drove 30 minutes over to Lazy Magnolia Brewery in Kiln, MS (that is pronounced "Kill" for those of you that ain't from the Sip). Just scored 2 quarts of some beautiful looking yeast straight out of the fermentors- FOR FREE. How awesome are they???:rockin:

definitely done fermenting. Primary for 4 weeks (3 involved cucumbers). No secondary. Carboy- undisturbed besides day I addded cucumber. No signs of infection besides smell. Beer was EXTREMELY cloudy but good color. US-05.

It was the first time I used table sugar as I had no Corn sugar at the house. Instead of weighing, I did a volume measure off of someone's rec. on here. If I had to guess, with the fact it was dry hopped with fruit, rancid smell, AND all were gushers- I'm going with infection. But with that...

Everyone on here knows that the golden rule is RDWHAHB. I would say the second rule (or the silver rule) is: "Leave it alone, let it do its thing, time works wonders with beer. Well, I have to beat a dead horse on that one. Last week I tried my Cucumber Summer Ale after a week of bottling...

I have done a good bit of research now on this now and while i have no doubt I can put something like this together, most of the sytems I see involve high dollar control panels which tend to get pretty expensive. Here is my question now with the fact that Eastoak has sighted $24 550 watt...

I know, I'm just kidding.