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Along with the beer I've been making, I've also always got a couple of gallons of cider going. I've always just bought store brand fruit juices of different types and let them ferment out. I don't sweeten at all. I've actually grown to like the taste of cider every so often. Sweet drinks...

I haven't had time to rack my cider. It's been almost two months. Has it been too long? What I usually do is ferment for 3 weeks, rack, and then it sits a month. I'm not doing anything special with these batches. It's just fermented store bought juice fermented with Safale 04. What...

I'm not sure what happened, folks. I'm not perfect, but I usually can't screw up bottle priming. I added 4.5oz of corn sugar to a 4.5 gallon batch (after racking and sampling over 3 weeks) to the bottling bucket before bottling my nut brown ale at the beginning of Dec. Stirred carefully but...

I'm still on extract brewing, but I have a feeling that I won't be for long. I posted a thread the other day about how to add Vienna most efficiently to an extract recipe. I have that down now, and I understand it well. I'm going to do a partial mash to get it into the wort. On a different...

I've been reading about mashing and all grain, and I've decided I'm not there yet. But, I'd really like to add American Vienna to an extract recipe. I understand that this malt can technically be steeped since it can take care of itself and doesn't require other grains. But, I thought I might...

Let's say that a person wanted to make a recipe that called for 1.25lbs. of rice syrup, but all that was available was rice syrup solids. Can this be substituted and if so, how would I calculate? I've been looking around for a bit and I can't seem to figure it out. I've seen places stating...

A really light colored, crisp, light body lager with a lower alcohol content that's relatively easy to make is my goal. There are several reasons for this, but I'm not going to get into the whys. Well, ok. I suppose I could say why. 1 - I've never made a lager before. 2 - I've never made a...

Hey all, I'm just doing extracts for now. I know most people ask for ways to increase alcohol content, but I'm wondering if there is a way to effectively decrease alcohol content. I mean, I know how I could do it, but I wonder if it would work for a recipe as a whole. Could a person just...

Hi everyone, I've been brewing since 2004, but I've only done a total of 5 batches. LOL. I did 4 when I received a starter kit for Christmas back then. None were what I really called successful. Maybe one tasted good. The rest were blah. So here I am again. I'm fermenting a brown ale...