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Has anyone done this? I did the math out on it, and for a 5 gallon batch where you'd use 5 oz priming sugar, you come out with something on the order of 150 grams of sugar in total. In a 12 oz can of Juicy Juice concentrate, there are something like 158-162, I can't quite remember. The numbers...

Has anyone tried using corn syrup as a fermentable? I know the high-fructose stuff gets a pretty bad rap in America, at least, and really it isn't great for you, but in the end its mostly bad because its just highly concentrated sugar, and because we eat too much corn based food. Whatever. I...

Has anyone used these things? What are they? That is... are they just a premeasured amount of sugar, or are they an alternative method of releasing CO2? If they can release CO2 into a stable brew, then the fabled "sweet but carbed" cider without kegging would be possible. However, if they're...

Hello all. Does mead lower in quality by being exposed to light? I'd heard that fermentation was only negatively impacted when hop oils are involved, as in beers or braggots. I've also heard, recently, that it can be detrimental to have a mead fermenting in the light. Is this true? What's the...

Has anyone ever used honey from Bamboo? SWMBO's uncle has several hives of bees from which he harvests honey and he just bequeathed to me 8 pounds of honey. Not bad considering he hasn't tried any of my mead and I've met the dude only a couple of times, and that I tend to make 1 gallon recipes...

Hey there all. I'm having trouble identifying a mass in my cider, a variation on the Southern Sweet Cider. I started it off mostly to that recipe, using Safale S-04, juice, molasses, and brown sugar, forgetting to use honey. After 10 days I racked to secondary and added some table sugar which...

Hey there, all. If anyone can give me any advice, it'd be much appreciated. Background: I've got a one gallon batch of mgayer's blueberry mead going, on which I followed the recipe as closely as possible. This recipe calls for a step addition, adding honey to the mead once every 30 or so...

Is this possible? I mean.. where I'm at, I can only acquire a Large sized Auto Siphon, which is too big for convenience in my 1 gallon brew experiments, for about $20. A siphon with a rubber pump and stock, clear plastic tubing, can be acquired for about $5, and, in fact, I already have a brand...

So I'm a complete novice with homebrewing, starting my first brew tomorrow, hopefully. I was wondering for future, larger batches, what people think about making a carboy from the water jug that you'd often see on a water cooler, those large, translucent blue 5 gallon containers. Has anyone...