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So something's wrong with my keg and I'd rather just get my beer out before I ruin the beer trying to fix it. The issue is it won't pour and I have no idea why. I've decided to bottle my brew instead, but I'm not sure how to get it into bottles. Is it safe to use fizz drops if the beer is...

So I had an issue with kegging. My out line was not as firmly attached as I thought so shortly after turning the PSI on, it started spraying mead. Before I got it turned off, the walls were coated in a blue raspberry jackson pollack. Any suggestions on how to clean it? I tried water and...

So my last venture in mandarin mead ended up with just an acidic jar of fermented honey. No orange flavor whatsoever. I've decided I'm going to reattempt the whole thing. First, a hydromel traditional as a primary, with plenty of orange zest. Something like 1.050-1.040 O.G. for a 5% final...

I made a mandarin mead earlier this month. Orange Blossom Honey (2lbs) and 30z of manderin orange slices. Also added tannin and pectic enzyme. 1 gallon batch. It started at 1.090 and today I measured and tasted it and found it at 0.994 (13% ABV) with almost no flavor. Should I just go ahead...

So I made a gallon of plum wine, like 2-3 pounds of plums, pectic enzyme, water to fill. Carboy looked clear and actually sat clear and still for about two weeks with some small layer of sediment at the bottom. Bottled today and got very hazy wine though. I was not expecting that, because of...

I'm going to start a session-style mead with strawberries and kiwis. The fruits have already been frozen 24 hours and after cutting the greens off the strawberries and slicing the kiwis, I intend to pasteurize them and then putting them into a must with 1 lb honey in one gallon (looking for low...

This weekend I'm going to Whole Foods and buying a jug of unfiltered organic apple juice, as I have in the past. This is great because it comes in a carboy. I intend to, as I have in the past, turn it into hard cider with one cinnamon stick. This time around, I'm carbonating the result, and I...

Anyone know why my blackbriar mead might have gotten carbonated? I opened a bottle and it foamed. Nothing major, nothing explosive or gushy but there are definitely bubbles as if I carbonated it. The recipe was 2.5 lbs honey, 1 gallon water, cloves, cinnamon stick, rosehips and blackberries...

I made an acerglyn last month and after tasting it when primary finished, I decided it needed more so I added blueberries in secondary and really liked how it came out. It didn't really clear well since I wasn't really planning to add fruit at the start, but I also liked the idea of adding...

Hello I have a blueberry wine in a few bottles. I want to save it for the 4th of July (I plan on doing a red, white and blue wine for the holiday) Right now it's in a few screw top 750ml bottles. I bought some corks and I'm waiting on a corker that should arrive next week. My question is...

I think I stalled my blue raspberry melomel. pH reading is at 3.0, which is too low for yeast (from what I understand, they don't like it lower than 3.4.). I added some calcium carbonate, and since it was its schedule for nutrient, it got some DAP and fermaid K too. Am I just done here? I...

A few days ago I bit the bullet and bought a tub of PBW from my local home brew shop. It was $30 so I was hesitant. Stuffs potent, took some blueberry stain off the cap of a wide mouth carboy in seconds. But yesterday I decided to remove the labels from some Allagash White beer bottles so I...

I made a Nord mead about a month or two ago (from the Elder Scrolls cookbook) but I underestimated what a clove would do and added like 10 to a 1 gallon batch. That mead is now bottled, I was hoping if it sits it might mellow for like a year and then be palatable. But today I had a different...

I have a basic mead, 3lbs honey, premier blanc wine yeast, some orange zest and a cup of black tea. There's 1 gallon of product. It's now read 1.030 twice with over a week between readings (started at 1.082, putting it at 6% ABV). I'm beginning to wonder if it's done, because the yeast can go...

This weekend I bottled a blueberry wine. It was went from 1.092 SG to 1.006 FG. And I got a 1.006 twice with about a week gap between the readings. But now I'm unsure if I read my hydrometer wrong. It's a gallon batch bottled into 4 750ml screw top bottles. And just for peace of mind, I've...

My cider went below hydro reading, I added about a quarter pound of brown sugar and my sample was still below what the hydrometer can read. Should I just keep adding brown sugar until the hydrometer floats high enough for a reading? The recipe was How to Make Hard Cider: Homebrew it!, the...

So I have two blueberry wines. Was curious as to which would turn out better, so I got a recipe using blueberries and sugar, and one just using blueberry juice (no preservatives, just juice, I checked the ingredients) I measured both today to start seeing if I can bottle soon and took a sample...

Hey I'm just looking for suggestions On July 4th I wanna take home 3 wines, one red, one white, one blue. Already got red and blue picked out, strawberry and blueberry (blueberry is already fermenting.) I was wondering what fruits would be good for a white wine. I don't want to use concord...

I have a mead that's at 1.004, 1.002, 1.000 for three successive readings, each one roughly ~week or so apart. Are those numbers close enough to call the mead stable for bottling? Or should I let it remain in the carboy (or be racked into another carboy, which I think I'm going to do either...

Hello One of my meads is a caramel apple bochet, about two weeks into fermentation. Today I took the time to remove the bag with the apples and decided to rack it out of the large big mouth bubbler (from Northern Brewer, about 1.4 gallons) to a regular 1 gallon carboy (without the fruit, it's...