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My brother and I went in on a joint project to make some mead. He supplied the honey and I'm brewing it, hoping to have it ready to bottle sometime around the end of 2013. Here's what I'm doing: Had about 17lbs of Orange Blossom honey, mixed with store bought spring water to get about 5.5gal...

Well I brewed today, yeah, I love it when I get a chance to do that. I'm doing all-grain, this was my 7th batch. I'm using Beersmith to help predict my numbers and am starting to get my system dialed in. I have been having problems getting the post boil volume correct, took time today to work on...

I'm looking to work on switching to electric brewing and am thinking about drilling my 40Q aluminum kettle to add an electric element and thermowell. The goal is to add a 5500W element with a PID controller to use as a HLT and Brew Kettle. This should allow me to shorten my brew day by using...

My grandmother used to make rootbeer, she used a collection of old returnable soda bottles with cork lined caps to seal them. I ended up with that stuff when she passed, the bottles are long gone but I ran across a box of caps and am wondering if they are worth using. They have been in a covered...

Last October I purchased 6G of red and 6G of white grape juice, had never used grape juices before, I simply opened the buckets and pitched the yeast. Racked both to carboys after 6-7 days in primary, and racked again in December. The both tasted OK when I racked in Dec, yeasty and clearly not...