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A little over a year ago I brewed an English Brown Ale. I waned to use my Mr. Beer Fermenting barrels so I had my local shop put together a 2.5 Gallon all grain recipe for me. The brewing went great an the wort was transferred to my little brown barrel. Just short of 2 weeks into fermenting I...

I put a call out on Facebook to my friends and family for Beer and Wine Bottles. A friend sends me a text that her Aunt's neighbor has some Wine Bottles that he doesn't want and would I be interested. So, never turning down a freebie I said sure. I am now the proud owner of 25 One Gallon Amber...

This past weekend I was able to finally brew up a 5 Gallon Batch of Mixed Berry Mead. This is from a recipe I found on the interweb. 15# Clover Honet 3# Mixed Berries 3 Gallons Spring Water 2 Packet Lavlin D-47 Wine Yeast I brought 1 gallon of water to a boil, removed from heat. At 60...

I have two meads that have been fermenting for roughly a month or more. Should I rack them or leave them be? 1: Batched June 9, 2015: Fermentation is still very active. 4# honey, Orange slices and raisins. Day 39 2: Batched June 20, 2015: Fermentation not as active as Mead 1. 3# Honey and 1...

So I found an Antique Glass Carboy at a local thrift shop. We are talking the thick almost greenish glass 5 gallon variety. The mouth is about as wide as a wine bottle and roughly 3/4 of an inch thick. Trust me when I say it was not a fun job trying to get a bottle brush inside. Anyway I plan on...

This past Saturday, I brewed my first All Grain BIAB. I kept the batch small for my Mr. Beer LBK. I wound up brewing a Northern English Brown Ale based on a recipe from my LHBS. I need to get one more outdoor burner so I can start doing larger batches. I currently have two 30 qt aluminum pots...

I'm planning on an LME brew tonight. Using the following ingredients Bries Traditional Dark - 6.6 lbs Willamette Pellet Hops - 1oz Windsor Ale Yeast I plan to use a modified version of the Mr. Beer instructions Sanitize Everything Step 1: Add 1 Gallon of cold water in to my 5...

I saw the threads about making a Mead with Apple Juice/Cider, but I want to use just apples, water and honey. Would one apple be enough and what would be the recommended apple to use?

My gravity came in at 1.014. It's been in the primary for 2 weeks, I need to bring it up to 1.025. What should I do?

I made a gallon of Mead on Tuesday, when I went to check the progress of the fermentation, the mead was basically coming out of the airlock :rockin: Just in case I had a water bottle filled halfway with a spring water star san solution on stand by along with a tube soaking in a sanitized water...