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Thank you all in advance for any help you may provide....I know variations of this topic have been discussed. I started a WineExpert Select Italian Montepulciano last year. The notes and dates/numbers are as follows: 12/18/13 - Primary fermentation began. Initial gravity 1.090. 12/25/13 -...

so I had ordered a Vinator off of amazon, with 2-day Prime shipping, but it didn't show. I needed to bottle a batch of wine, so i had to run out to the local store and buy one. The day after I bought the one from the LHBS, the one from amazon showed up, so now i have two. I haven't even opened...

Greetings All, I started a wine expert cabernet kit several weeks back. It is scheduled to be bottled this coming Monday, June 3rd. I just learned today that I will be shipped out of town for business the entire month of June. I WILL be ageing this wine longer than 6 months. Per the...

Selling my Super Agata Bench Capper. I quickly transitioned to kegging, and have no use for this anymore. It has been used for ~ 60 bottles. ( two 5-gallon batches, split between this and my red baron ). Northern Brewer sells for $37.99 w/ $8 shipping. I'm selling for $30 shipped...

Looking to trade my bench capper, (used for 1 5-gallon batch), for a bottle tree and avinatore bottle rinser. I recently decided to downgrade my setup and sold off some things I thought I wouldnt need, but now times have changed and I need a tree and rinser back. Should be a straight...

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has anybody ever done this? It seems like it would be extremely straightforward, but i'm sitting at the office at the moment and dont have my manifold in front of me to inspect. I'm building my keezer and have everything mapped out, but the air flow direction on my manifold looks like the one in...

So I'm very new to cider. I made a 1 gallon batch 4 months ago, simple 100% apple juice, champagne yeast, and backsweetened with 1 can of AJ concentrate. Stove top pasteurized and bottled. Had one a week after it was bottled and it was terrible. Fast forward 4 months and decided to try it...

Slowly but surely I am building my AG system. I have a 10 gallon Rubbermaid drink cooler, and just got a 12" domed false bottom from my LHBS. I already have enough kegs to have 3 keggles and am as well slowly but surely building my Brutus style stand. Im estimating my Brutus build will be...

Here's the scoop. Brewed a 5 gallon batch of black IPA about 6 weeks ago, dry-hopped in Secondary with 1oz of pellet hops, filtered beer from secondary to keg with a muslin bag over the end of the auto-siphon, threw into keezer. Kept on 30psi for ~60 hours. Turned down gas to ~10 psi for...

Greetings all! sorry for yet another A419 settings post, I just want to make the best beer possible!.....forgive me ;) My A419 arrived two days ago, and has been hooked up to my chest freezer in the garage just to'equilibriate'. As I type I am transfering a Black IPA to secondary. It started...

greetings all.... I am new to the cider game, but I want to make something tasty so the gf can enjoy some homemade beverages with me. Currently, I have my first batch of cider happily fermenting in a 1 gallon jug. It is simply 1 gallon of store-bought, 100% pasteurized apple juice with no...

First off let me start by sayingim not freaking out....I think everything will be ok. That being said, I made a 1.5 L starter yesterday for a Bavarian Hefe that I'm brewing later this afternoon. Everything went according to plan. I made the starter in a 1 gallon glass jug because I'm too cheap...

Yesterday was the first outdoor full boil for me in my young career. I would love to go all grain one day, but for the time being extract kits are where I stand. First batch was a Northern Brewer's Cream Ale extract kit. Per the instructions, I went with 6 gallons to start, but should have gone...

Greetings All, I have done a few extract brews inside on the stove with partial boils, and now am in the process of making building a solid keggle to move outdoors. I already have the keg, disassembled, and cut the top open. My big question involves draining. I'm pretty clueless as to what...

(I figured that title would draw some crowd in here to actually read my thread.) Good Afternoon fellow homebrewers, I've been thinking lately, and I'm going to voice my opinion. I really dont care who flames me or hates me for thinking this...but here goes... Let me start by saying I...

Hey all, I have a 25$ amazon giftcard I got for Christmas that I just remembered about. I was thinking about a 3 gallon carboy with air lock and bung for 22$, but shipping was 25$ on top of that. So I think I'm gonna just get a nice digital kitchen scale for starters/priming sugar and maybe a...

So....as the title says, how long have you been brewing 5 gallon batches for? The reason I ask is that I'm looking at new kettles online. I've always been a believer in buying something right the first time, so it will be sufficiently used in the future instead of having to buy something...