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I’m a beer maker not a wine maker so excuse the dumb question! I have several gallons of frozen homemade blackberry juice that my grandma made. She recently died and relatives have been making jam/jelly out of it but have grown tired of that. They know I brew beer so asked if I could make a...

I know everyone says don’t fear the foam! However, I just had a thought. I just transferred an IPA into a secondary. I normally don’t worry about transferring but this beer was really trashy! I used star San to sanitized my secondary and of course there was a lot of foam left when I...

anyone have experience using Magnolia Tree Flowers in a beer? I’m brewing a wheat beer tomorrow and considering adding magnolia to it. Curious how much to use for a five gallon batch and best way to add to preserve flavor. Thinking I’ll add the flower petals to vodka and add after...

I bottled a 5 gallon batch of my Russian Imperial Stout back on Jan 21st. I have popped open a bottle or two along the way to monitor how is carbing. I just opened a 12 oz bottle tonight and its still flat as hell. This is the 4th time I have made this recipe and I have never experienced this...

OK, I've brewed a great beer and have plans to enter it into the Big Muddy Monster Home Brew Comp in Murphysboro, IL. But...I need some thoughts/opinions on which category to enter. It is a wheat beer but I added 4 lbs of strawberries to 3.5 gallons of wort/beer after it had fermented for 4...

I brewed a 5.5 gallon wheat beer yesterday. My intentions were to make a strawberry wheat. To make room for the strawberries, I had considered racking off 1 gallon into a small 1 gallon fermenter after 3 or 4 days of fermenting. The more I thought about it, I really liked the idea, plus the...

I've brewed an all grain imperial IPA. Everything pretty much went perfect during the entire process. I bottled into 22oz bottles and let them sit for four weeks. Refrigerated one for couple of days, was excited to pop the cap and try my new brew and it was flat as heck. No biggie I thought...

Anyone ever heard of Apple Jack wine? Have a lady in my office asking me if I can find a recipe for it. Really not sure how its different from Apple wine. All she could tell me is it had some spices in it.

This past Saturday I brewed a Midnight Marzen recipe using the Wyeast German Ale 1007. I just checked and still do not have any visible activity (it has been 50 hours). I am using a blow off tube, because I read that 1007 is a very vigorous, active yeast strain. The smack pack never swelled...