first timer

Hello!!! I'm new to home brewing and this community... j I got a little excited and was totally bitten by the beer brewing bug after my first batch of IPA turned out brilliantly (it was a kit!). I think a bit of false confidence got to me, so I decided to go kit free and am now attempting to...

Help!! I’m new and made a cherry mead on the first attempt yesterday afternoon. The bung started slipping out. I read in another form that will happen if the bung and throat of the bottle are wet. So I re-sanitized the bung and dried the side before replacing it. That seemed to work for a...

I'm a first timer and followed this recipe to a t about three months ago with 3 lbs of honey. https://www.growforagecookferment.com/how-to-make-a-gallon-of-mead/#wprm-recipe-container-5237 What I have now is about a gallon of liquid that looks like Mott's clear apple juice and smells like it...

Hello all! Been doing some cruising on here and finally signed up, on to the topic at hand; with the closure of liquor stores and a interest in homebrewing I recently started a process to make my own alcohol. As in making a sugar syrup and adding dry yeast and letting nature do its thing. Most...

Hi Folks, hope you're all keeping busy at home, and getting outside when you can. Crazy times, indeed! On my first foray into hard cider! Doing 19L, got a 1.090 for the initial, and I am using E1118 yeasties. I pitched 30min ago! Woohoo! Trying a Drunken Emu clone, with some extra sugar. Also...