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I was planning on making a hard lemonade for my girlfriend, but it turns out she likes hates Mike's Hard Lemonade. She said she loves Twisted Tea, though, so I'd like to make a batch of that. I searched the web for a hard tea recipe, but didn't really find anything. I'd like to make a 2.5...

How To Brew is the bible to homebrewing beer IMO. Is there an article or even a book about making your own wine out there that would prove very helpful to newbies?

3-4 years ago, I started experiencing issues when I would drink alcohol. An uneasy feeling in my stomach shortly after consumption, fatigue, and an overall malaise. The next day I would also feel hungover for basically the entire day. I could understand it if I was drinking a 12-pack of beer...

For my next two beers (in order), I'm going to brew Jamil's Flanders Red and then Denny's Old Stoner barleywine. I'd like to brew the red one weekend and let it sit in primary for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, I'm thinking of racking the red into a cornie, pitching the Roselare yeast starter then...

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/1528246492.html :< If only I had $250 to waste. I'd consider $125-150 I think, but I can't really spend more. Maybe Tom would be interested...

If I understand it correctly, with wine you're supposed to minimize the head space surface area when aging to avoid oxidation (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm thinking of making a high gravity beer soon that will bulk age for 7 months or so. I wanted to split the 6.5 gallon batch between two 5...

To prevent spoilage.

I made my first mead a little while ago. It's been in bottles aging for maybe 4 months now. How long should I let it age before trying? It tasted awfully hot when I tried a sample when I bottled. Also, does the overwhelming majority of mead makers on this board keep their meads still?

So I was attempting to bottle two batches Saturday. This would be the second time using my Buon Vino automatic bottle filler. The first time, it worked quite well. This time, however, not so much. It would constantly sputter air into the overflow tube. Also when the wine filled the bottle...

I think I'm just stressing about this beer because I'm so excited about it and should just RDWHAHB, but I wanted to get some feedback on how the ferm of my breakfast stout is going. I brewed it last 7-8 days ago and my OG was 1.075. It was a 3.2 gallon batch which I pitched one packet of...

I'm looking to start brewing lagers. This will require me to get another fermentation box as I'd like to be able to continue brewing ales while my lagers sit for months. I currently use a chest freezer with a digital temp controller for my ales. The digital temp controller was one of the most...

My system has an efficiency around 67%. I normally hit my OGs regular (1.060 and lower) beers. I've made a few big beers and have come up at least 10 points short of my expected OG. Using the breakfast stout I made last weekend as an example, I was expecting an OG of 1.085 and got 1.075...

I personally love ratebeer.com as a resource for beer reviews. Is there a similar type of site for wine reviews?

I really don't know that much about wine at all. I'd very much like to broaden my knowledge and take a wine education class or something similar that will provide me with information. I'm wondering what the best avenue for this would be. I went on a vineyard tour this summer, but that wasn't...

I've been brewing my own beer for about 3.5 years now. I started brewing with extract kits, but within about 6-12 months, I had switched to all grain and have been doing it every since. For those unfamiliar, some of the main advantages of AG brewing include: lower costs per batch from...

I'm making two wines right now and completed the fourth step last night. This is the step where you rack, add metabisulphite, top up, and let sit for 2 weeks before bottling. These are my 4th and 5th kits and in all previous kits, I topped up with water as I didn't have any wine available...

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I have a mead that's been bulk aging for 5-6 months. Should I bottle it soon? If so, should I add sulfite?

I'm excited to brew some cool beers in the near future, a pumpkin ale I'll brew on Columbus Day and a chocolate coffee stout sometime later. :b

Both red wine kits I've made have had what I'm concluding is a very small amount of carbonation to them after aging 6+ months. It is a VERY small amount, almost unnoticeable taste-wise. The only reason I can tell (assuming that it's actually carbonation) is when I pour a glass, there is a thin...