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Hi there, I've been brewing an ale last week and next step is to cold-crash. I tried collecting some CO2 in a keg (mostly to flush the keg of O2) and rubber glove to compensate for the suck-back when cold-crashing. But it got me worried it might create such a vacuüm, it actually can bend/pop-in...

Soon I will start making my first batch of red wine made from grapes (must actually). I've did some research, online and reading the book Modern Home Winemaking, by Daniel Pambianchi. One thing that is not really clear is how/if to use sulfites, in particular how to measure free sulfites. I know...

After a decade of brewing beer I want to make the step into the world of wine. I did some research online and I found there are a couple of choices to be make before I can take off, some of which I cannot really answer on my own. I guess first is start with a kit/extract, juice or fresh grapes...

So a few weeks ago a brewed a Belgian double/quad coming in at a SG of 1.078. I've just bottled it and the refractometer gave an FG of 1.000. Wait what? Probably a wrong measurement. Measured again, still 1.000. The recipe had a hefty chunk of candy sugar in it, and I mashed deliberately on the...

Good afternoon, Is it possible to have no hot break, even if the wort is boiling? And if so, does this have influence on the final taste? This seems a silly question, but something strange happened last weekend... When I was checking my boil just before the last hop addition, about 50 min...