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Hi all. I made fig wine about 1 year ago. Followed Jack Keller's recipe to the letter. It turned out pretty good. I think it could use a little acid bite, my husband thinks it is fine the way it is. Neither of us are very big wine connoisseurs to really know what we are talking about...

How to begin the story?....let's see...thought I could squeeze in brewing a quick extract ale while my 2 year old boy napped today. Put him down for nap. Santizied equipment, boiled water etc. When I went to add the syrup to the water I realized there was MOLD all over the surface of the...

Long story short I was distracted by my 2 yr old while making beer from a kit. I heated the can of malt extract syrup with the packet of dry yeast still on top. The yeast packet was never immersed. The whole process was maybe about 15 minutes and I turned it off right before it reached a...

I went to check the gravity tonight and realized that I never even took out the mesh bags of hops ~ 3 weeks ago when I pitched! WOOPS! So, what do you think? What's the worst that could happen? I tasted a sample and it tastes OK, the beer has more "floaties" in it than I would normally...

I Live on some acreage that had many mature grape vines when we moved in 6 years ago. These are table grapes, I don't know the varietals but green seedless, red seedless, green with seeds red with seeds and dark purple seedless (concord?) In years past we have gotten about 300lbs and...

I have 30+ lbs of asian pears, and a buttload of table grapes. I'm not interested in making wine out of my grapes this year due to the work invloved and poor quality of wine I've been getting. So, I found an asian pear wine recipe on jack keller's website, and it calls for 1/2 lb golden...

HI, this is happening as I type. I am a wine maker. this is my first batch of beer. The malt and hops and water are boiling as I type. SOme potassium metabisulfite that I used for sanitizing my equipment got into the mixture. What do I do now? Do I need to wait 24 hours before adding...