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I'd second that for a basic recipe for a nice bitter. 95% MO, 5% C65, Challenger hops for about .8 ibu ratio, some EKG at flameout, and Wyeast 1469 West Yorkshire.

Crush the tablets, and sprinkle it and the Sorbate on top of the wine. You can stir it in if you want to, but if you haven't racked it yet, stirring will also stir up all the sediment on the bottom of the fermenter. Either rack the wine on top of the powder, or just sprinkle it on top. No...

To ensure stabilization. I'd use about 1.5 Campden tablets and 1/4 teaspoon (or maybe even a little less for 1.75 gallons) of Potassium Sorbate. Give it a couple days, then backsweeten and package. If you tried it with Campden alone, it wouldn't do what it needs to do. Without Sorbate, you'd...

The rule of thumb is 1 Campden tablet per gallon. Potassium Carbonate is to reduce acidity. What you want is Potassium Sorbate and Potassium Metabisulphite. You can just use about 1.5 Campden tablets and that should take care of it. Adding Potassium Carbonate tends to lead to wine diamonds...

Yep, use the Tafelbier as a starter, then just pitch consecutively stronger beers on top of the cake. That's a "cheater" starter where you get to drink it too.

Some people make low-alcohol beers and step them up as they go. For example, you could make a Tafelbier, then an ESB, then a Barleywine. The "agitating" part is because the yeast is growing exponentially in the starter and gulping the oxygen so fast the agitation is needed to help the yeast get...

Yes. The original Campden kills all the wild yeast at the beginning so your wine yeast can take control. That Campden settles out in a day or so. The Campden added when you are ready to backsweeten takes out the wine yeast so it doesn't just ferment your sweetener.

If you add more sugar without stabilizing it, it will just ferment out and become stronger. Do you have Campden tablets or Potassium Sorbate and Potassium Metabisulphite? If you have Campden tablets, add 1.5-2 of them. If you have the powder, use it per instructions. If you have none of the...

What safety issues are you.concerned about?

You keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside

Ordered a Reina Del Sol kit and a Barebottle Torcido kit from Morebeer to get some Summer lagers ready. Got to have some Mexican lagers in Summer in Texas.

It will make it thinner and less mouthfeel, but if you're ok with that also, there's nothing wrong with your idea.

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So you're looking for hops that will pair with honey wheat for about 40 ibu, or a wheat ipa, or what? Not really getting what you're going for.

I haven't even heard of it till your post, but: https://craftabrew.com/products/safale-w-68-yeast https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/safale-w-68

Welcome. This is the best hobby j can think of. It's still fun even after many years, tasty, and you get to enjoy the results instead of some hobbies where you just put it on a shelf and forget about it.

Brewed another 5 gallons of Bell's 2-Hearted Clone. Dropped in some Nottingham yeast, and fermenting at 60f.

Do you know what breed of apples? They vary in tannin, acidity, sweetness, etc. I have red and golden delicious apple trees in my mini-orchard... neither are best for cider.