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I have a mini brew 6.5 gallon conical fermenter and was wondering if it would work for a typical 30 bottle wine kit. Just ordered a Selection International Malbec kit and was planning on using my conical for it. What kinda of foaming (krausen ?) should I expect from wine compared to beer? At 6...

I usually only brew ales and have only brewed one lager in my time of brewing. I could not ever really get the sulfur out. Even after 6 weeks there was still a hint of it. Beer was good just was always that hint of sulfur. Is there an available to homebrewer strain of lager yeast that is low...

For my recipe which is a simple Blonde Ale. Grain Bill 9#8oz 2 Row Pale Malt 8oz Crystal 10L Mashed with 12.5 qt at 161.4 hlding mash tun at 150 for 75 mins and then sparge with 4.33 gal at 168. Added ~.5 gal to bring up to 6 gal boil. It says my pre boil SG should be 1.048. After...

The entire yeast cake looked like this no hard muddy looking cake but this clump looking trub. This was done with a starter (1st starter ive done) and the hops were strained before dumping into primary. Is this normal? Before dumping into secondary and seeing this ,while doing a hydro on it and...

Well may have screwed the pooch unknowingly. I have an Aventius clone that I just racked from primary to secondary. I knew that it wasnt gonna be clear and when I brewed it didnt have any Irish Moss for the boil. So I decided that I would just do gelatin once I racked into secondary. Well I...

I keep seeing these people talking about fermenting for 2 or 3 weeks and i have a question. If your final gravity reading is at target, Ive had some there in 7 days, why keep it in the fermeter? Im not totally new to homebrewing but by no means a pro either so just wondering the reasoning behind...