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Edit: Thanks for your replies everyone. This is plenty of information. I'll think about it and see what I do. My sister and brother in law like pilsner. They have been trying to make one from kits, but they are just beginning to make beer and they ferment at hot temps and it always comes out...

First time trying all grain beer recipe. I've mostly done festabrew and made one coopers extract kit. I don't have equipment for all grain, but wanted to try anyway. I have 2 12L stock pots and a propane stove. I'm planning to split the ingredients between the pots and do both at the same time...

I've only been making wine/beer at home for less than a year, so keep that in mind if I make mistakes. I tried 1 gallon of mead a few months ago, to see what it was like. I put about 4 cups of honey in, so it was very sweet, then after the fermentation calmed down and it cleared a bit, I added...

I have been enjoying making the festabrew kits. I want to add a fruit puree next time. I'd prefer raspberry, but if I can't get it, then probably cherry. I'm looking at 3lb cans of vintner's harvest puree, but could also try juice or frozen fruit, depending on what I can get. I also have...

It's my first time making beer. I read that for adding gelatin to clarify beer quickly, the beer needs to be chilled first. I've put it into the fridge in a carboy, but then I read something that said if you make the beer cold it will kill the yeast and then won't carbonate in the bottles. I...

Hi, this is my first time making beer. I have made wine 4 times. I got west coast ipa kit. This is day 2 in primary and it's doing fine. I added 1oz of cryo cascade hops, because I want grapefruit flavor. I heard that the cryo hops are stronger than regular hops. If I leave this in for 2 weeks...

I'm a beginner. I have put my first two kits into wine bags, because it was easy. One was a red wine which I'm sure would be better with age. From what I've now read, the problem with storing wine in bags for aging is that the bags oxidise, which I didn't know when I put the wine into them...

I’m a beginner, in the process of completing two wine kits. Other than that, I haven’t made wine before. I have somewhere in the ballpark of 20lbs of frozen blueberries in the freezer and want to try making wine out of them. A local winery made a blueberry wine that was my favorite, but they...

This is my second time making wine, and I used a kit. When we opened the juice bag, some of it spilled. Now the gravity measurement is slightly under. It's 1.046 and the range is supposed to be 1.048-1.060. I added yeast and then thought maybe a little bit of table sugar would be good to bring...