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I think I'd like to try making skeeter pee, which is a lemon wine. The recipe (http://skeeterpee.com/recipe) calls for yeast slurry, which I don't have on hand. Is there a way to substitute this, like can I put some wine yeast in a bowl with some water and sugar for a week and just let it...

Hi. I'm not really a wine maker. I've done my share of beer, but decided to try some port kits from the local store. I'm on my second kit. The instructions say to proceed to stage 2 when the SG gets below 1.020. I can not get the SG below 1.05, nor could I with the first batch. The...

Hi. I'm brewing an extract recipe, which has been sitting on my shelf for 2 months. It looks like one of the tubs of extract has contamination, there appears to be 2 kinds of mold on top. I have picked it off with a spoon. I should still be on top use this, right? It's going to get boiled anyways.

Hi. I ask this question because I'm brewing with an extract, and the recipe included says to "never ever leave it in the primary for longer than 5 days". And when I google, some people say they rack to secondary after 2 days. Some say 3. Some say 2 weeks. Some say a month. Etc. So...

Heya. I decided to look for a home brew forum, because I'm getting such conflicting results googling for answers to questions. I'm sure I'll still get conflicting answers, but at least they'll all be contained to single threads! :) So here I am!