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I don't really have the equipment to macerate/ferment my pinot noir grapes in one vessel or new buckets. We ordered crushed grape must not the juice. Mistake there but we have a press lined up. Can I just drill a hole and add a grommet to the buckets that are already food safe? They have a...

Hi, I was thinking of doing a melomel. Is it ok to macerate the whole mead? The grapes I want to use are concord. I want to macerate them for a pinkish color and tannin. Can I go ahead and do the crush, and honey/water mixture, let macerate and press? Or do I need to do a separate maceration...

I added sulphites to the must yesterday and I was going to pitch yeast today. I should be fine with pitching it tomorrow after work right? I already took precautions which I think will work. I sprinkled a tiny pinch of sulphite again just on top and sealed the bucket now with an airlock...

So I have made plenty of fruit beers with decent success. Those were clean beers. I have made a peach farmhouse that is still rather cloudy and tart after 8 months in the bottle. I now have a sour blonde that has been sitting on peaches for 6 months. Tastes amazing. We happened to fall in to...

Hello, I have looked into pressure canning but realized my pressure cooker really isn't for canning. I am leaving this Wednesday and plan on leaving little mason jars all over a 40 acre property. There is quite a bit of wildflowers, persimmon, berries and other vegetation to capture...

Hello, I can not find a good source of drying out hibiscus. I have a Rose of Sharon tree and want to dry them out to use in a beer. Should I just go ahead and throw them in not dried? I brewed a 100% brett beer and would most likely throw these in a secondary.

Hello, I have a really weird issue that happened last Saturday. This is my first time doing a big 1058/1060 batch. That's my typical gravity. I ended up getting 1058 OG which is weird. We have been hitting our gravity every time. Regardless, I think that has some easy tweaking. Here is my...

Hello, I have a few questions regarding the grapes I will get this year. The plan is to have 10-16 gallons of wine. It could be as low as 8. I harvested 8 gallons last year from some vines in the backyard last year. We pruned it for this year. I am anticipating more or about the same. The...

So I am enjoying my first blend very much. I had a barrel character that was a tad strong. So I took a try with blending. Fantastic. Anyways, I want to look ahead for the future. I want to create an acid beer for blending. I am in the height of our heavy brewing season so I want to make 15-20...

Hello, This will be my second time making wine this year. A friend offered to buy a barrel or too. I think I will be able to make 20 gallons with grapes in the backyard, a wild vine, and possibly more from finding vines on FallingFruit. So he said this would be a good idea with the...

I was thinking of doing a partigyle on a RIS we are brewing this weekend. We have plenty of beers on deck so a wild coolship beer might work. If not I will just pitch some california ale and just have a session ale. Do you think all the dark grains will make a weird tasting wild ale? Do...

Hello, We brewed a ton of funky beers last year. We are now bottling a few and some still need a bit of time. We also have a few batches up to 2 to 2 1/2 years. We are working on bottling a beer soon. We got two barrels that had gin in them. We filled them and one barrel tasted great. The...

So we upgraded to a bigger set up. 30/20/20 blichmans with a tower of power. We bought this autosparge instead of the blichmann one. It will fit perfect on our new setup. We want to keep doing small batches as well so we are keeping our old pots. The auto sparge doesn't fit in the center on the...

This is a special beer we made so we want to go all out on it. We haven't decided on caps or corks. If we go with caps, we will get a little owl on the cap as well. A very talented redditor is designing this for some pizza. He said I could post it up here. I think it is pretty good right now...

Hello, We have two controllers, and are about to do a few test batches after some water runs. But by a few batches, I want to start using the software that is optional. It requires windows so I have two options: I am in the process of building a pc so I could use my old one. I am also...

I preorderd some hops early this month. I am now starting to plan exactly how to put them in. I will do whatever extra work it takes to make these some nice hops. I ordered two Centennial and Neo1. My main spot I want to put the Neo1 will be a duo use. It is near the front porch and I will...

So we picked up two barrels that held gin and bourbon from a local distillery. We went to pick it up and tried the gin and bourbon. The gin is just full of juniper. We have a few barrels sours ready to bottle or age in a barrel. We were thinking that a sour beer would go good in one. Possibly...

Has anybody tried these before? These sound like a fantastic barrel. Here is a http://www.blackswanbarrels.com/barrel-variations/ They have the Black Swan HONEY COMB® Barrel Anyways, a local distillery is offering two for 80 bucks at the end of this week. 5 gallon barrels. I am most certain...

Hello, I got a great deal on a case of Anchor Christmas Ale in 1.5 L format. I couldn't pass up a case at cost so I bought them. Anyways, we were bottling a saison and did a practice cap on this to make sure it will work. The cappers we used would get locked up on the rim on the glass. We...

So my buddies and I have a few barrels already. Two 15, and one 6 gal. We are looking to get either a 30 gallon or 60 gallon wine barrel. I have tried emailing wineries with no luck. I got a response yesterday saying they won't have one until later this year. Sort of vague, but I am thinking we...