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Hello! I've been making beer for about 6 years, and gotten pretty decent at it. However, between work and kids, I don't have as much time anymore. It seemed like wine might have a shorter brew day, and I'd still get to make use of the investment I have in equipment. So I decided to take a whack...

Just got the Ward Lab report back for my well water. Of course, it came at 6PM on July 3rd, and I'm brewing tomorrow on the 4th when I won't be able to get anything to modify the water. Up until now, I've used either this water or bottled and had no issues, but I've also done partial mash, and...

My first mead has been sitting around for a year now. 3 months in primary, then 9 months in secondary, in a temp-controlled 65 degree freezer. I've been very patient, and haven't messed with it at all. Now that I'm ready to bottle, I did a FG and drank some of the sample. It tastes wonderful...

I'm about to start my first batch of mead, after brewing beer for a couple years. Because of the time it'll take before I know if it's any good I'm trying to collect all the advice I can starting out, since a year is a long time to wait to find out I made a headslap mistake. One thing I've...

I brewed AHS's London Pub Ale kit, mini-mash, and it went for nearly a month in the primary, and three weeks in the bottles. When I finally got to tasting it, I felt that the wheat flavor was really overpowering. I don't know how they feel about having their kit contents given away online...

So this is my 4th batch of beer. Every time I've brewed, I've done something wrong. Nothing huge really, and all the beers have turned out OK, if not great. Each one is a learning experience, and so I'm not disappointed. I fix those problems with the next batch. This time, I didn't pre-heat...

I'm going to be brewing the AHS Cream Ale kit (partial mash), with White Labs WLP080 Cream Ale Blend yeast sometimes in the beginning of March. Hoping to have it ready for a trip I'm taking in the middle of May. Seeing as this is an ale/lager blend and I've never lagered, I had a couple...

I'm usually able to answer about 99% of my questions here by searching around a while. This one I can't find an answer to, probably because the answer is a resounding "it depends", but here goes: On Monday (yesterday) I did a 1.5L starter with a WLP002, for AHS's London Pub Ale kit. This is...

So, every time I do a batch of beer something goes wrong. Nothing so bad as to ruin the beer, but enough so that I know what to do to correct it for next time. This past batch had issues with temperature. Namely, the heat failed in my house and the ale was in the low 50's for a day before I...

So, I've done a few batches with no problems, but I haven't used a secondary since my first. My current batch had an OG of 1.056 and was at 1.020 when I moved to secondary. I had a brain fart and didn't think to make sure fermentation was finished first, since I normally check that before...

Brand new to home brewing. I was about to buy the stuff I needed to get started, and my only local home brew shop owner went on vacation for a couple weeks. So, I had time to read through this forum, and also read the Complete Joy of Brewing. Feeling prepared, and having a long list of stuff...