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I've been doing a bunch of wines from fruit juices and concentrates mostly. I've been out of the hobby for a while, but getting back into it now. I'd also like to start moving up to using real fruit (well mostly, sometimes a mix of real and juice/concentrate). My question is how to figure out...

My wife doesn't drink beer and only some certain sweet red wines. But she really likes a couple different flavors of the Seagram drinks. Strawberry daquiri is one of them. So I picked up a few items and mixed up a batch to see if it might come out to her liking. 6 cans frozen strawberry...

So today I saw my Mr beer keg laying around, I haven't seen it in about a year. So I decided to give something a try since it would be a smaller batch. I already had the stuff at home so it's nothing fancy, but I'm not sure I would drink it by itself. It's made with jalapenos and onions and...

So tonight I was driving my family back from the sons soccer game. We were driving "in flow" with traffic about 5 mph over the speed limit. The 2 lanes merge into 1 (because construction) and everyone is doing the proper zipper as the lane ending is beginning to merge farther and farther back...

My buddy had a keg of Yuengling at a get together. Turns out that a lot of people didn't show, and we ended up taking the keg back to my place. Since he had to turn the keg back into the place he got it from he didn't want to waste/lose all that beer he paid for (the place wouldn't reimburse)...

I just put this together last night. I had to split it into 2 batches b/c my primaries are only 5 gallon buckets and I wanted to end up with 5 gallons after primary. Here's the notes: Berry Burn 5 Gallons Water/Sugar to 1.085 5 Lbs Frozen Strawberries 5 Lbs Frozen Blueberries 1 Lb...

I have a job right now that provides benefits. I've had it for about 5 years now. It's mundane but stable. I just received an opportunity to work for someone else for a little more money (not concerning), but doing what I'd rather do for work life. The problem: The new job doesn't provide...

For my first 4-5 batches of anything, I opted to go with used synthetic corks I got from a local wine store that does tastings. I assumed these were #8 as they always went easy by hand. I had a couple with designs on them that resemble the #9's I've seen and they were harder to get in the...

When the time comes to backsweeten a cleared wine, I'm unsure how to best proceed. I've never attempted this before. A little insight would be great and help set my fears of a ruined batch aside! - Pop the airlock and add sweetening agent, waiting a couple days for sugar to dissolve...

Just bottled a peach mango (from juice)! The sample seemed watery to me. Couldn't really tell there was peach/mango flavor. However, I'm worried, as I've read before, that when the tops of the bottles look like this, it means it's oxidized and is now vinegar. Please tell me I'm wrong and it's...

So I found this variant of Skeeter Pee on WMT called Dragon Blood. It seems rather simple and uses less fruit per gallon. Dragon Blood I whipped up these quick variations to see how the adventure turns out. Planning on starting tonight/tomorrow, so if there's any changes that should be made...

I started in search of a 7 - 8 gallon stainless steel pot with a spigot. Let's just say eventually I came across this ($116ish): http://store.homebrewheaven.com/15-gallon-stainless-steel-brewpot-wlid-p1037.aspx and for another $24-25ish I can get a brass spigot installed on it. The shipping...

* This is not to spark a discussion about distilling/spirits/etc... I happened to catch one of the "bonus footage" shows of Moonshiners on Discovery Channel. There was one guy on there that said they don't use "yeast". They used a corn seed that started sprouting instead. The reason - no...

I've made a good bit of wine within the past year thanks to everyone on here! However, I've never attempted using real fruit. I think it has to do with the whole 'pressing/juicing' that doesn't seem worth my time. I am intrigued by how different bought juice vs. real fruit compares. With that in...

I currently have a 5 gallon batch of strawberry concentrate wine that wasn't noted how it was made :(... I remember it used 5 cans of concentrate, at least 2lbs of sugar (maybe like 2.5ish as I ran out of it), and water to near the top of the neck of a 5 gallon better bottle. Pitched...

I decided to try to come up with a brew that I hope really goes over well in December/holidays. I figure the normal is probably a little hint of cinnamon for that warmth spice (and others like clove/nutmeg/ginger/etc). I'm trying something a little different for the 'warmth', but I will retain...

I ended up downloading the brewr android app, and it's quite a bit of fun to play around on. I was playing around with creating a baltic porter extract, but I cannot seem to find any ingredient to up the srm? *Please note I was just testing how to create a recipe*. Forgive me if this is...

Ok, so I def. did a search on hiccups, and can't find anything related to the matter... I don't like drinking a lot of what people call 'swill' these days. I've done my fair share of it and drink whatever is cheap and on special at the beer granted I don't pay for the night. What gets me is...

When I was at the lhbs the other night I happened to glance at the malt extracts they have (not kits). They sold cans of 3.3 lbs for about $18ish which I'm guessing is pretty average. But then they also had 3 lb bags of malt, which looked like a powder form of extract for pretty much the same...

So far if everything falls into place, the wedding date will be next August 24th. I'm in search of some ideas/thoughts/suggestions that would make some good variations/selections for next August. I am aware of the 1 year time constraint. I have 2 batches of apfelwein currently fermenting...