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Had some unused date molasses was wondering what to do with, so decided to give it this try: 6.5kg date molasses (75-80 brix) diluted with 13 litres of lemon/ginger water. 7.5 litres of lemon/raisin semi-wine. 4 litres of slurry from previous ale batch. No additional sugar. Some dry hops in the...

Ok, here’s an amusing story about my first batch.. Don’t know where the idea came from but I decided to go for a REAL whole grain (plus some sugar) batch and bought 10kg of unmalted barley. Malted the barley (drying and kilning part most difficult) and crashed it with a food processor...

Hi all, I think I fermented a batch to be around 18% ABV by mistake.. It was a mix of whole grain, liquid malt, candy sugar, and white sugar; no boil, cold hopped batch. Bottle carbonated with 10-12 gr/litre cane sugar. Initial gravity was 1130 and final gravity is 998 (effect of extra alpha...

Hi guys, Just in process of fermenting my fruit wine: 12 l pinapple 12 l orange 3 l apple 1 l very very dark tea 1 kg white sugar 0,5 kg cane sugar 0,8 kg flower honey 0,65 kg apple concentrate Wine yeast with 17% tolerance No pectolase or anything else All %100 packaged juices, fermentation...

Hello guys, Very new here and to the world of brewing, just registered. Quick question, already read many threads but could not find the answer to my problem. I just brewed my first ever whole-grain batch (5 gallons) in a disastrous process but the result (initial taste) was surprisingly not...