aging

Hi, I need to make a batch before I leave for holiday. I plan to transfer to my secondary and dry hop some Centennial, Summit and Citra before I leave. I will be out of town for 6 weeks. Can anyone tell me if dry hopping in a secondary for this long will produce any bad flavours/excessive...

So I am a beginner in brewing so sorry if some of these are basic questions. And I’ve been looking into aging my cider in an old whiskey or bourbon barrel and I have a few questions. First is if I put 30 gallons of fermented cider into 50 gallon barrel, would that extra space do anything to ruin...

Hey All, learned a lot from lurking, but hoping to get some specific insight here for my first batch bottling. I have 5 gal of unpasteurized, fresh pressed juice that's aging in bulk secondary (gravity when I racked from primary was 0.999, it was drinkable, but pretty harsh). I'm going to do...

I've been making a blackberry melomel and it was in the primary 3 weeks then I racked the blackberries onto it and left it for 4 weeks. I just racked it off the fruit into a 5 gallon carboy for bulk aging. There's exactly 4 gallons of mead in the 5 gal carboy. Should I worry about oxidation...

It seems that the more time I allow my wines to condition, the better the end product. Generally, I rack 2-3 times and age about 6 months before bottling. After bottling, I typically let it sit for another 3-6 months. Having lurked here for some time, I sense that much of what is made is...

Does anyone know where to get glass carboys in a size in between 6.5G and 14G? More specifically something in the 10G range? I am planning on setting up a Solera for making a blended Wild ale. I don't want to use plastic because of how long the beer will be in there, and Stainless doesn't let...