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  1. Gerry Nobody

    Very weak ale!

    Okay, so I am trying to learn from my mistakes and was wondering if someone can point out to me what I did wrong here. I guess my first mistake was being too ambitious. This was my first time brewing beer (have done cider and wine pretty satisfactorily for a few years) and I like strong Belgian...
  2. Gerry Nobody

    Open flask when agitating yeast starter?

    Title is basically my (probably stupid) question. I am making a yeast starter for the fist time and don't have a stir plate so just agitating occasionally throughout the day. Do I need to take off the tin foil cover when doing this to let some air in?
  3. Gerry Nobody

    Racking killed my wine?

    Hi! I have had this pumpkin wine fermenting about a month. I decided to rack it into another carboy to get rid of the gunge at the bottom. Thing is, it's stopped bubbling! Have I somehow killed it? I have heard you shouldn't leave any headspace so I topped it up with water, could that have done...
  4. Gerry Nobody

    Calculating ABV after adding exra sugar

    Ok, a bit of a complicated question here, higher mathematics to me, but then I'm a newbie to wine. I followed a recipe for pumpkin wine which involved adding sugar in three stages over the first couple of weeks. To make a long story short, just after second batch of sugar was added OG was 1.063...
  5. Gerry Nobody

    Temporary headspace

    Hi! So I am making some wine from pumpkins, never tried wine before (have made cider before) but I'm wondering something. The plan is to rack the wine in about a month from the smaller 10 litre carboy, temporarily into the large 25 litre one. I've heard that a lot of headspace isn't good for...
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