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Ok my giant brain home brewers,what is the formula for converting malted grain to malt extract?Example 1pound of dme =?pounds of malted grain. I am looking to make a barleywine using rye and rye malt and haven't found a malted extract for rye.

Morning folks, I just finished starting my first batch of Barley wine. Problem is o.g. is 1.150 should I starting adding more grape juice or what? Yes folks the recipe called for grape juice.This a 1gal. batch ,I have no problem with going to 2or3 gal.

I have to ask when a recipe calls for frozen juice concentrate,do I add required water or is it just the concentrate? Also can it contain anything other than asorbic acid?:tank:

This is my first real season at home brewing.I am confused can meads be bottled in beer bottles or should they be put in wine bottles? At present I have apx. 6 cases of empty beer bottles and access to all the empty wine bottles I want.:tank:

To my fellow brewers please I could use some help.Getting ready to rack4-1 gallon batches,cyser/graf,bracket,honeyale,and a tart cherry mead with 1lb.of honey and10oz.of D.M.E guess you could call it a cherry port memomel. I know what to add to cyser/graf,the honey ale,and the cherry port.What...

just got done starting 4 /1 gallon batches of mead.A cyser/graf, bracket,honey ale and last but not least a modification of Joe's quick Grape mead.I changed out grape juice to tart cherry and lessened the honey and added 10 oz. of DME. I hope to end up with something like a cherry port.Anyone...

Got 2 samplers of honey ale just about done . Fixin to start my first try at a cyser graf ,also starting a variation on Joe's Quick Grape Mead . Let you fine folks know how it goes.Local brew pub brewer is teaching a mead making101 class for our local bee association

Have a quick question, fellow mead makers. If I make a cyser recipe and change out the apple cider and swap in cherry cider is it still a cyser ?:confused:

Evening, Iam trying to convert two beer flavors to a braggot recipes.I know there are plenty of recipes for cyser and pumpkin meads but how do I create the wheat and hop components or even try to determine the varieties or combinations.Is it just a whole lot of trial and error or is there some...

Just wondering if using buck wheat honey would create any problems in making a batch of simple braggot that is posted in the recipes setion?:tank:

Hello fellow brewers After learning a hard lesson about sulfites and what can happpen if you forget to use them.I am sure this is a real new bee question am I suppose to sulsite my mead.So far I have 2 batches of Cyser brewing and a hard ice tea and 3 different hard ciders:confused:

Evening Fellow Brewers My first batch perry turn out weak with a slight vinegar taste .What the heck did I do wrong? I sanitized, used good fruit, no sign of mold, followed the recipe to the letter.Don't recall the starting sg. but it finished at 1.000 and clear as a bell. Best of all no hang...

Greetings and Happy Holidays I am looking for a recipe to make a 1gal. batch of Hard Root Beer. this a sampler If is good I want to make a big batch:drunk:

Looking for recipes using cinnamon red hots.1gal. to sample .:mug:

Looking for any recipes using cinnamon red hots :mug:

Looking for small batch recipes using cinnamon red hot candies in either hard cider or mead.By smallbatch 1gal.that can latter be jacked up to larger size.:drunk:

I have been eyeballing HBT for a while. It's great to find a group thats not nose in the air.A little about myself Just finished my first year bee keeping ,and pressing 24gallons of sweet cider . Out of the sweet cider I have made a 2gal. batch of hard cider and a1gal. batch of spiced...