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I'm fairly new to the wine making side of things. Currently, I cold crash my wines and they come out nice and clear, but it would be nice to be able to get them extra polished since I have started giving some away. Also, even when just transfering wort or wine, it would be nice to have both...

Anyone ever heard of a recipe for this? The "Choc" stands for Choctaw, from the local Indian Tribe, and I'm not finding anything except one recipe from Northern Brewers that has raisins and corn meal, and thousands of pages where people have abbreviated "Chocolate" to choc. It's an old...

I got a bunch of pears from a buddy that said, "Here! Make us some pear wine!" So I read around a bit (Not a lot of info for pear wine) and came up with a recipe I'm now trying. This recipe fills a 7 gal bucket with about a 1" air space left, so if you have a warm spot you're fermenting in, or...

I am wanting to start a pear wine and didn't have the yeast I wanted, 71B-1122 (Brew store is 100 miles away and we're currently snowed in) and currently have some fermenting in some banana wine. I made a starter with some cut up pears and sugar water I boiled first, then opened up the ferment...

I just decided to try something a bit different, so I did quite a bit of reading and came up with a recipe for banana wine. It's a combination of several recipes, mostly gotten from http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/recipes.asp along with some ideas from here...

I made a 6 gallon batch of simple mead using Red Star Pasteur Champagne yeast. That was July, it's on it's 3rd racking, and it's still not cleared up. I don't want to start throwing additives in it, so I decided to cold crash it in the fridge. I pulled a bottle off of it and the taste is much...

Just wondering about this... Every wort chiller I see gets some sort of cooler immersed into the wort and cold water run through the cooler. Why couldn't you immerse the cooler in an icy bath in an ice chest and slowly siphon the wort through that into the ferment bucket? It'd be done in just a...

My first cider batch was made with champagne yeast... Aweful. My second batch was with Safeale 05. Better, but still not what I want. I'm looking for something that only goes to @ 8-9% alc tolerance and doesn't taste aweful so I can add enough sugar to still have a bit of sweetness to the...

I am trying out a partial mash batch for the first time. It's a vanilla chocolate porter. I used White Labs liquid yeast (WLP001). I left it in the primary for @ 3 1/2 weeks and went to transfer to a secondary today, and saw this. Mold or yeast? I've never had a beer batch...

Making a chocolate porter. I used White Labs California ale yeast WLP001. Thinking I might have pitched the yeast too hot.. maybe 85-90 degrees. Still nothing going on in the air lock after 24 hrs. Should I pitch some more yeast? I'd like something to get that oxygen out of the ferment bin. I...

Just a simple mead. I started with 15 lbs of honey (Bought from Sams) and meant to make 5 gallons, but ended up with close to 6, so I added more honey to make an OG of 1.106. I used 1 TBS yeast energizer, 1 TBS yeast nutrient, and 1 1/3 TBS of acid blend. I rehydrated 2 packages of Pasteur...

I've been making it for years and had always heard making beer was legal, but it appears I was wrong. You could make wine and cider, but they've only allowed beer since 2010, and only legally can make 3.2% beer, and ONLY if you have a license/permit to do so! So, last week I contacted the...

I looked in the recipe thread for bock beers, but everything is either partial or full grain recipes. I am looking for something using a Liquid Malt Extract kit. I want something that tastes good, but is easy to make, and I want to boost the alcohol up as much as possible without ruining the...

My cider took almost 10 days to quit bubbling out of the air lock. I gave it another day, then pulled the air lock and used a sterilized siphon to get a sample for the gravity, which came out to .996 1/2. (Used EC-1118 yeast) After tasting the sample, it wasn't bad. Very dry and little alcohol...

I picked up a LME of Coopers Stout, along with some chocolate malt that I had cracked (1 lb). I absolutely LOVE Youngs Double Chocolate Stout, so was hoping to get something in the ballpark to that. It was suggested to steep a 1/2 lb of the chocolate malt for 20 minutes. Anyone with any...

5 1/2 gallons apple juice (Sams Club) 2 cans frozen apple juice 2 lbs brown sugar EC-1118 yeast Normal beer brews for me result in 2-3 really good days of bubbling in the air lock, then a tapering off. This batch stayed in @ 68 degrees and resulted in some pretty amazing CO2 formation...

Hi everyone. My name is Tod, and I am not an alcoholic... YET. lol. Not really a noob.. but sort of. I used to do a lot of home brewing several years ago, and for some reason got out of it. All my beer making stuff sat out in the shed for @ 13 years, and I recently got a wild hair to get...