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I made some fruit wine and mead last September and it’s been bulk aging in glass carboys. I have racked it several times and vacuum filtered/transferred through my all in one wine pump using a 1 micron. I would like to just bottle it instead of adding a bunch of sulfates anyone do this?

I've made some wines/lots of beers and now on my third 5 gallon batch of mead. I get lots of honey from cutouts so this is what I do with what I can't possibly eat in a reasonable time frame. I have just recently gotten into making mead so I haven't even tried any of what I have made. Brews...

I'm doing a couple bigger brews this weekend and doing them biab. I've had trouble in the past getting the sg right im usually pretty short as in my final abv calc is usually 2-3 % low. I was thinking maybe to the full biab and then sparging a few more gallons of hot near boiling water to get...

May not be the best place but since I'm not on any bee forums maybe someone here will know. I removed an older hive from a barn wall on 12/14 this was the second hive I've got and was unlike the first as all the comb was dark needless to say extracting the honey has been a lot harder. I had to...

I’d like to make some without commercial yeast if possible. Any easy recipes? Could I squeeze a couple grape cluster and mix in for the pectin?

I started these two batches around the same time. This is after I added about 12 lbs of sugar the one that stratified and cleared had llavin 71b the other that's still cooking has Montrachet. They still look like this the llavin batch stratified after 3 days it's abeen about a week so far. Did...

I found a quick easy mead recipe online 1 qt honey 1 orange sliced 1 cinnamon stick yeast I used some extra LALVIN 71B. I'm fermenting in a 1 gallon Carlo Rossi jug I fitted with a stopper and blow off tube. The sg of the top liquid after mixing was 1.105 it appear to have stratified a...

I have been getting all my stuff from homebrewsupply.com but they recently up'd their shipping so I'm looking around. Morebeer.com has good prices but when I click on the all grain kits and select the ingredient sheets it always has the extract version. Does anyone know if this is a simple...

Sorry for all the questions... I've picked a lot more grapes than I thought and I've also realized I need a bigger fermenter. I see people using poly drums and trash cans. 1. Can I just get a trash can from walmart or does it need to be some special type of plastic? 2. De stemming is...

I'm using a jack Keller recipe for mustang grape wine he has some 1 gallon recipes that call for 6-8 lbs a gallon but for 5 gallons it says 1/2 bushel which I seen is about 20 lbs de stemmed is that right?

My ph is 2.71 I believe the primary is done right? Does everything look normal?

I read in another post someone said they use a blender and turn the grain to dust is there anything wrong with that and is there some appliance I can just get from lowes or something instead of buying an expensive grain mill. I've always had the online supplier grind my grains before shipping...

I've been making beer and wine for awhile and my wife started buying some kambucha tea and asked if we could make our own. My personality of enjoying stuff like this I jumped right in. I ordered a scoby off amazon a two gallon jar and enough black tea for the rest of the year. I use RO water...

I've spent some time watching youtube videos of larger batch wine making and I'm a little confused. These guys fill up 55 gallon plastic drums and let the must ferment in them for about 10 days. It doesn't appear they are using an air lock not until they strain it and transfer to secondary. Can...

When making wine do you first do the primary fermentation and then transfer the wine into oak barrels or do you just start in the barrel? Is it common to add wood chips if not barrel soaking?

I've recently been brewing all grain batches of brew got about 15 batches under my belt since last October now with some fundamental knowledge of the process I'm coming upon my first muscadine season. I live along the texas coast and specifically very close to the Colorado river in texas which...

I mistakenly don't have any of the priming sugar the kits come with. Is there a substitute I can pick up from the grocery store?

Did my first all grain batch BIAB method after the boil I'm getting 1.032 for og it's supposed to be 1.055 is this batch trash or can I maybe add sugar I really don't know what to do. I don't know if mybe I burnt the wort there's a grey sludge residue from the boil up. Any thoughts would be...

I have a batch of RIS and a Belgian triple both expecting Abv of 8-9% the RIS is fermenting about 3 weeks and the belg about two. I use dry safeale I was told at the LHBS to use more yeast should I drop in another pack at this point or leave it under the air lock?

I'm pretty new too brewing made 3 extract batches and want to try all grain. Preferably I'd like to try it before I get fancy equipment. Any issues with just making a false bottom with pvc and holes drilled on the bottom in a cooler. I would plum it to the drain hole and then just unscrew the...