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I brewed a five gallon batch of smoked porter and I just transferred it into the secondary tonight. There is quite a bit of head space in the secondary and I'm wondering if I could take my vacuum sealer and suck all the O2 out and capping it with an air lock. Would this work or should I find a...

Im going to start a batch of peach wine. These will be freshly picked peaches from the trees behind my parents house. Looking for a semi sweet wine with an ABV around 12%. What would be a good yeast to use? Ive used Lalvin EC-1118 for most of my wines and this yeast has produced great wine so I...

I have 10 gallons of Tart cherry wine that has been in the carboy for 7 months now. Now I'm going to stabilize it with the sorbate and metabisulphite. My question is should I let this stabilize for a couple days before I start to backsweeten the wine to taste? Or can I stabilize, sweeten, and...

Ive recently been collecting wine bottles for my home made wine that is in the carboys now. I finally have enough bottles to start bottling and I wanted to remove all the labels. I did some research and soaked them in the tube with water and oxy clean over night. The labels came off fine for the...

Had my first bottle bomb ever. Tried my cider and its way to carbonated and dry. I back sweetened before bottling but I have been really busy and didnt have time to pasturize on the stove. Could I back sweeten again and pasturize right after I bottle and cut back the carbonation? This seems like...

I have 50lbs of tart cherries and would love to make cherry wine. Is there a really good recipe that people have tried and liked? Thanks Andy

I let me beer ferment for a week and then I transfer it into a secondary for about a week. I transfer my beer to my bottling bucket and add my priming sugar for carbonation. After sitting in the bottle for 3 months I end up with lots of sediment or trub at the bottom of my bottles. Is there...

If I decide to back sweeten my cider with apple juice concentrate, do I need to add priming sugar also to get carbination in the bottles? or will the sugar in the concentrate be enough to get carbination? I plan on stove top pasturizing when I get the proper carbination I want. Thanks Andy

Im preparing to do a blue moon clone recipe and it calls for a light wheat specialty grain. My question is, What is the difference between specialty grains and base grains? Im also having a hard time finding a Light Wheat specialty grain? If anyone can help me out that would be much appreciated...

I want to back sweeten my Cider and I have a 5 gallon batch. fermentation is complete and my FG reading was .098. What I was wondering is what is a good ratio for a sweet cider when back sweetening? I guess I dont fully understand this process and I dont know what I should use to back sweeten. I...

My OG was 1.060 before pitching my yeast and its been in the car boy for a week now and I took a SG reading and it was 1.008. My question is am I ready to kill off the yeast and back sweeten for some flavor, and rack to a secondary car boy? My cider is very cloudy also so I was hoping that...