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Has anyone heard of the Hessian fly i have been reading about them now i dont want to plant any wheat or barley till they say it is past the hessian fly date sometime in the fall.

Interesting let us know how it goes

I bought white sonora wheat and winter rye. Small amounts anyone use these. I plan to feed rabbits greens and use the rye to add nutrients to my garden green manure idea. May or may not let rye go toa seed. Just wondered if anyone any experience with either of those grains

Ok thanks i will wait and let you know and ill stop worries for a bit. Thanks..

I will wait hope it is ok. It had a lot of air space in the bucket so that is ok. Im used to topping off when I am doing wine. It is the bucket that came with the kit I believe a 6 gal possibility.

I opened beer up not formenting from what i can see. Hydrometer says around 1.02. Dont taste good i think it may need something help. I also need to purchace sonething to pry that lid off l..oh my that was hard. Should i leave and check again

Ok i will leave in bucket but from what i have read i should leave alone. I make fruit wine so im used to opening and stirring the fruit so i then can see what is doing. Should i be worried that it may not be formenting? Can i take the lid off and look. Next time im putting it in the secondary...

Ok i started my 1st and learning. 1st change my kettle isnt big enough so i had to add quite a bit of water came from a berky water filter that i then boiled and cooled. Time consuming. I will buy spring water should i boil that next time? It is pale ale kit. I have it sitting on counter in...

So then i can boil and add water to secondary and it will not change the taste. The directions says to add two gal or full boil of six gal. It is a stock pot maybe five gal. kit has 6 lbs of liquid malt and grains i need to concider the volume they take up too. So i dont have a boil over mess...

Hello im new to brewing beer. I now have q 5 gal beer kit. I am reading and deciding how to do this. I do not have a pot big enough to do the boil can i half the recipe then combine when its done cooling? I have done wine and mead. The beer is all new to me.

Chiller sounds nice not ready still need to learn the steps seems a bit different than wine.i put a wine outside in the winter to get the temp down faster just took so long. My recipie say get it down to 80. So after that would it be ok on my counter in the kitchen to forment?

Hi got a brew kit for christmas I make wine. But beer is all new. It is a 5 gal kit. Reading up on it before I start. Not to much information came with it so im reading. This cooling is worring me and cooking in garage dont want to do i dont think anyway. I was thinking bags of ice work has a...