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Anyone here using a forced transfer system to bottle your wines? Planning to give it a shot this weekend. Will be filtering my wines into a keg and using my kegerator system to bottle by putting the co2 on as low as it will go. Will be taking my tap system totally apart and sanitizing everything...

So I didn't have plans to brew this weekend and I have ingredients on their way for my next 3 batches, but have some extra time tonight/tomorrow for a spontaneous brew day to use up some older stuff and I also seem to come across some good recipes when I post a recipe build post here. The only...

Going to be brewing up a schwarzbier for a brewing demo put on by my homebrew club and wanted to get some thoughts on my grain bill first. 5# pilsner 3# Munich light 2# Vienna 8oz chocolate malt 8oz roasted barley Not sure if it's too much roasted barley? Don't want that burnt flavor. Also...

Have seen a few different graff/braggot hybrids and graff Saison on the market so I thought I'd give it a shot. This is based on the Slippery Slope braggot/graff recipe from the brewer of The People's Pint, Forna Flora Brewery's Appalachian Apple Saison and combined with my own Saison cyser...

Edit: all of these were found online and did not put them together myself. What do you guys think of these 3 recipes. I've been making a lot of stouts lately but haven't made a porter yet. Had an awesome woodford reserve bourbon vanilla porter at a local amateur competition and would like to...

Going to have 4# Maris Otter left after my English Braggot recipe is brewed. Decided I'd like to do a 1 gallon or 3 gallon SMaSH. I have these hops: 4oz Centennial (12%) 1.5oz Whitbread Goldings (4.3%) 1oz Sterling (6%) .75oz Liberty (4.3%) I'm not looking for a crazy bitter IPA, but I would...

So I found an English Braggot recipe in the mead section of the AHA website. Not sure why it was in the mead section as this recipe is really more of a big beer than a braggot. Only uses 2# of honey, whereas a braggot should be at least 50% honey. Which is why I posted this in the beer section...

OK so usually when I relative buys me a cheapy AG kit, I usually find out what's in it and build on it to make a better brew. I can't find a damn bit of info on the yeast or hops. Anyone have an idea? I assume a US-05 strain but can't put my finger on the hops. Looks like about 1/4oz or maybe...

Well, I've got a ton of extra grains and supplies laying around, so how about a few more recipes? I have empty 1 gallon jugs and a 7 gallon bucket and will have a 6 gallon glass open shortly. Here is my current list: 2# Pale Ale Malt 8oz Smoked Malt 10oz CaraAmber 8oz CaraPils 1# CaraMunich I...

Looking for some feedback on a Smoked Maple Bacon Braggot. Folks at GotMead are experimenting with bacon so I figured I'd join in. More of an all grain beer recipe but more than half of gravity points coming from honey so I thought it would go best in mead forum. Mods feel free to move it to...

Will have some grains leftover from a braggot experiment. Looking for some feedback. According to Brewer's Friend, everything is to style. Basically, just going to through a little of everything in to get rid of leftovers from previous brews before they get stale. Target 5.5g In Fermenter OG...

So a friend of mine was able to bring me five 55 gallon plastic drums used for flavorings at a brewery. He also brought me a few 30 gallon and 5-10 gallon barrels. I planned on using them to start making bigger batches of cider, beer and mead as well as using some for other purposes. My...

So a friend of mine was able to bring me five 55 gallon plastic drums used for flavorings at a brewery. He also brought me a few 30 gallon and 5-10 gallon barrels. I planned on using them to start making bigger batches of cider, beer and mead as well as using some for other purposes. My...

Just curious what everyone uses for fermenting pear cider. Have a 5 gallon bucket of pears to run through the press tonight or tomorrow and haven't decided what strain I want to use. Wife's cousin just did 10 gallons of pear sage saison which had me thinking about using a saison yeast but I'm...

This might sound like a stupid question. I have made tons of different wines, meads, ciders and beers but have never made a grape wine. The other day I saw some vines full of fox grapes (vitis labrusca) and decided I'd pick as many as I could reach and got a little less than half a bushel...

Looking to start a brew club in the wyoming county area. If anyone is interested, message me and I'll send more info. Hoping it eventually leads to sanctioned competitions with enough interest.

I was going to resurrect one of the long dead carrot wine threads here but decided to start a new one instead. I have about 6 pounds of carrots that I tossed in the freezer yesterday to start a batch of carrot wine with. I noticed a lot of the recipes call for boiling the carrots instead of the...

So sitting here on lunch playing around with Brewers Friend to use up a few ingredients I have leftover. I like all types of belgians so I decided I would try another saison, this time with rye. Partial mash 1 gallon batch .25lbs of kolsch malt .25lbs of crystal rye .25lbs rolled oats .25lbs...

With all of the amazing work done by folks like LoR on experimenting with quick, tasty meads, there has been a ton of requests or questions on using dry yeast strains to create a solid, tasty, quick mead. Although I have not made LoR's BOMM myself, I have tasted it from others in the area who...

Anybody have any good ideas for a one gallon single extract, single hop brew?