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So I like to experiment, sometimes it works sometimes not. In this case I added some gelatinised rice mash to the beer I was brewing. The result was not bad enough to throw away but not, to be honest, entirely pleasant. It has a slightly ashtray-ey smell/taste that I have experienced before and...

Okay, so I am trying to learn from my mistakes and was wondering if someone can point out to me what I did wrong here. I guess my first mistake was being too ambitious. This was my first time brewing beer (have done cider and wine pretty satisfactorily for a few years) and I like strong Belgian...

Title is basically my (probably stupid) question. I am making a yeast starter for the fist time and don't have a stir plate so just agitating occasionally throughout the day. Do I need to take off the tin foil cover when doing this to let some air in?

Hi! I have had this pumpkin wine fermenting about a month. I decided to rack it into another carboy to get rid of the gunge at the bottom. Thing is, it's stopped bubbling! Have I somehow killed it? I have heard you shouldn't leave any headspace so I topped it up with water, could that have done...

Ok, a bit of a complicated question here, higher mathematics to me, but then I'm a newbie to wine. I followed a recipe for pumpkin wine which involved adding sugar in three stages over the first couple of weeks. To make a long story short, just after second batch of sugar was added OG was 1.063...

Hi! So I am making some wine from pumpkins, never tried wine before (have made cider before) but I'm wondering something. The plan is to rack the wine in about a month from the smaller 10 litre carboy, temporarily into the large 25 litre one. I've heard that a lot of headspace isn't good for...