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What woulb be the best way to bring small portion of beer with me. I keg my beer, sometimes i will go visit my buddy about 3 hours drive away. Don't really want to bring a whole keg, what would be the best option to bring some with me?

Filtered my wine last week, and after tasting it, it's taste fussy. So I'm wondering is it ok to degass it some more?

When you guys transfer wine from primary to secondary, do you put the hose all the way down in the secondary for the wine to cover the end of the hose. Or you leave it up and bit, againts the side of the secondary. I was wondering, because someone has told me to have the wine cover the end of...

Started a Orchard Breezing Cranberry Chianti kit last night, usually I add about one cup of sugar befor putting the yeast in. Now I forgot to add the sugar, can I still add it tonight, stir it and i'll be ok. Or is it too late? THanks

I'm alway brewing the brewhouse kits, and keg it. Everytime the beer is kind off clouly, not clear. After 1 month or 2 it will get clear. I've tried adding gelatin powder, it worked once. But the last time it did not work. Is there something I am doing wrong or is there something I can do...

In the process of starting my kegging, just wondering if I have to clean and sanitize my new CO2 tank befor I get il filled?

Have a batch of brew house american lager that has been in the secondary for 2 weeks. As the instruction I am ready to bottle, but now I have bought my self a kegerator, and would like to keg it instead of bottleling. Now I am moving in my new house in about a month and don't have acces to my...

Started a RJ Spagnols Grand Cru International Collection Malbec red wine kit. As per the instruction I transfered from primary to a glass carboy after 6 days, my gravity reading was then 1.012. The instruction stated after 6 to 8 days and a gravity of 1.020 or lower. After that I had to wait...

Doing a 4 week wine kit, and i am a the bottleling point, the only thing i'm leaving tonight for about a week for work. Now can I leave it in the secondary for another week without any problems? Should I rack it one more time in an other secondary?

I'm at the clarifying stage of my wine and after a day I noticed that the air lock didn't seal right. So air probably when in the carboy, can this mess up my wine or will it be ok?

Started a RJ Spagnols Orchard Breezin Pomegranate wine, and would like it to have a higher alcohol content. Could I just add sugar to it, and it would make more alcohol?

Would like to know the best way of using starsan. I just mixe 1 oz starsan with 5 gallons of water in a plastic bucket. I just drop my equipemnt in the bucket when I need to sanatise. I will be checking the PH level and adding starsan if I need to. Now is this the best way, or should I just...

Doing a R.J Spagnols Bergemain 4 week wine kit. Now the wine is in the secondary and is done clarifying, so I'me ready to filter and bottle. Now my brother was telling me to racking it again and leave it an other week for it to age a bit more more. Does this makes sense? Thanks

Just wondering if I can use starsan to sanitize my wine equipement? I'm using sulphite right now for wine and starsan for beer, just tired of the sulphite fumes. So will using starsan and not rinsing affect my wine? Thanks

Started a wine kit last friday night, and I guess we were supposed to stir the batch everyday for 5 days. So i didnt do it the first 2 day, and did it today for the first time tonight. Could this affect anything, or should I keep it a couple days more befor transfering..? Thanks

Interested in using Starsan for sanatizing, but can't really find it here. I'm from New Brunswick Canada, and all the local places don't carry it for some reason. Anyone know were I can get some from the net in Canada? Thanks

Hi, When to a brew place, and the guy told me to use Chlori-Clean to sanitize my equipement. I used to do chlorine rinse and metasulfite rise, now he's telling me just to use the chlorine. Apparantly he's been doing that for 25 years and he never had any problemes. So is using just the...

I use chlorine and Sulfite to sanitize my equipment. Now someone told me that when I wash with sulfite not to rinse it (just let it dry), and when I need the equipment again I can just rinse it and use it. Just wondering if I can realy do that?

After making my beer and closing the lid on the primary, I put the bubbler on the lid and forgot to put the little plastic thing that goes in the bubbler. Now I added sulphite in the bubbler, after I realise that I did not put the other part in the bubbler I removed it. Now there’s probably a...

Hi, I'm new here and have a question. I just transfered my first batch of beer from my primary to my secondary. Now should I put it away from sunlight or is it ok? It is not directly into the sunlight, just normal day light.