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Friend of mine gave me a couple of cases of OLD Genessee 16oz returnables...they had been sitting in a basement for god knows how long. Mold, bugs, thick dark stuff caked in the bottoms...really gross. But I am trying to clean them. I will clean them. I will use them. So I ask: What is...

I have a raspberry wheat that I will be bottling up in a week or two. I made it more for SWMBO, but it would take her forever to go through 5 gal of any beer. The stuff is sitting at ~4% ABV. I would like to take a gal or 2 of the stuff and up the ABV a good bit, thereby turning it into...

Seems like the general consensus is to add fruit when transferring to secondary. Makes sense. I would like to avoid having any seeds in my bottling bucket when that time comes, and I think adding loose fruit to the secondary would make that difficult for some fruits (i.e. raspberries...

I have been picking raspberries for the last few weeks to get enough for a 5 gal batch of wine. When picking them I see that there are other raspberries on the bushes that are moldy. So I am picking nice fresh ripe berries from a plants that also have moldy berries on them. I would imagine...

My mother made a batch of elderberry jelly that didn't set up right...it's more like elderberry syrup. Tastes okay, but no way we are gonna use all that stuff and she just wanted to dump it. I thought maybe it would be okay to make some wine out of it. My plan would be to mix it with about...

Looking for feedback on a 1 gal batch that is in the pot right now. Grew some hops this year, but not nearly enough for a 5 gal batch. Yield ~ 1 oz cascade. Wanted to make beer using all 'our hops', so making a 1 gal batch. Did it on the kitchen stove using a half pound victory steeped...