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I've brewed mead and a few beers before but am about to do my first cider. It's been a couple years since my last brew, so trying to make sure I'm not missing anything here. I'm thinking of doing 2 ciders at once. Both will be dry, but I'll be adding raspberries to the second cider. I prefer...

So there's a newish brewery out of DFW called Martin House. They make one of my favorite beers of 2013 called Day Break. It's a breakfast beer. It's billed as a 4-grain beer, that's fermented to be dry, and then slightly sweetened with honey and milk sugar. Wondering if anyone has...

Brewed my first batch. It was a 6 gallon batch, basic IPA. Made the newb mistake of not having gallon markers on my fermenter, and used a total of 6 gallons of water (boiled with 2.5, added 3.5 post boil). Had hoped this would be enough. When I went to rack it to my secondary after a week of...

My first beer is fermenting right now. My local HBS put this together based on what I like to drink. It's an IPA, similar to a dogfish head 60 min. Partial grain boil with extract. I've looked up the hops, but wondering what some experienced brewers could tell me about the specifics and what to...

Just racked my first batch of mead into my secondary, so I've got a bit of experience with the basic process. I've also purchased a second carboy and a 5gal brewpot so I can get some beer going while I wait the 1+yr for the mead to be ready. So what am I waiting for? I've tried a few...

Went to rack my first batch last night into a better bottle. My kit came with an orange cap. I had assumed my airlock would fit into one of the two nozzles, but that wasn't the case. As a fix, I use a my stopper to connect the two. This can't be the correct method. Have also not seen any...

My first batch has been fermenting for a little over two weeks. I'm using the orange blossom recipe from "The Complete Meadmaker". It says to rack after 2-weeks. However it still seems to be fermenting at a pretty high rate. I'm getting bubbles in the airlock every 7-8 seconds. I've read...

Brewing my first batch, and I'm looking to use a simple recipe that calls for orange blossom honey (15lbs). I'm also in Texas, and haven't been able to find a local producer that has taken their bees near an orange blossom, so I'm looking to buy online. Here are the sources I've found so far...