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I have been backsweetening wines as my wife likes them sweet. We've narrowed it down to about a cup of sugar per gallon to backsweeten and it's worked fine till today. I made an Apple blueberry wine, 2nd time, and it seems too sweet so I tried measuring the gravity of a pineapple wine and the...

I made a pineapple wine and the recipe called for tannin but I don't have any. Do I really need it? Here's what I made. It's in bucket and waiting 24 hours before adding yeast. 4 gallons Pineapple wine 4 cans frozen pineapple concentrate + 12 cups water 4 pineapples, cored, and juiced...

Made this today, interested in thoughts as to of ti looks right or I did too much or too little of something 3 gallon recipe, Apple blueberry wine 3 lbs blueberries 1/2 gallon blue-Pom juice 2 1/2 .gallon Apple juice and cider 1/4 cup lemon juice concentrate 4 lbs sugar 3 Campdon...

I recently entered a sweet stout into a contest. It didn't place but scored well enough to want to tweak. Here are the judges score cards and the recipe itself: Comments basically said to increase body through grain bill and possibly use a different yeast. Though about going with Irish ale...

Never had this issue before but for some reason the bottle caps are pretty easy to pop off the bottles. Don't know if it's the new capper, caps, or bottles. Have used Sierra Nevada bottles in past and this wasn't an issue but don't know if they changed things. The beer carbonates but just caps...

Just made a brown ale from a kit. The OG was 1.050. I used safale-04 yeast. Just poured it right into Carboy on top of wort. It's been a little over 24 hours and the fermentation was quick but now the airlock shows no bubbles at all. When I put the yeast in the temp read 72 on the...

I will be using a Nuwave PIC Pro to boil my next batch of beer. For a 3 gallon boil it took about 50 minutes to get there it has a strong boil with lid on but when removing lid it tapers off to light boil. How will leaving lid on affect it.