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After about 10 years I am back on the forum. I have not made beer or wine in at least 10 years but I am getting back into it. I am currently getting equipment out of mothball. Little nervous about making wine or beer because it has been so long. I am doing alot of research and looking over all...

I am back in Virginia from working in Ohio for the last 1.5 years and ready to get restarted with my beer and wine making. I have a question. I have a Muscadine that has been in the carboy for the last 1.5 years, however the air lock has not been maintained and no water is in it. Also no Kmeta...

Well I have to be in Wheeling, WV at 7:00 am Friday to work for a national engineering firm. As most of you know I have been out of work for almost 2 1/2 years. Don't want to go...but a man has to do what a man has to do. Needless to say I probabaly be out of touch for awhile

I have an old Noble Grape Muscadine that has been in the secondary since about September of last year. K-Meta was added up until Decmber 2010, It should have been botlled around the end of Decmebr 2010. How do I determine if this can be bottled or should it be discarded? 8 - 9 Months without...

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I am on a very tight budget and it dawned on me that I may be able to make an interium kegging system out of equipment I already have from a previous business. I have 3 water refillable fire extinghishers that are Stainless steel and have a capacity of 3.5 gallons each. After filling with...

I changed my settings to include the last post first. How in the h++# do I change it back to the default setting?I have tried everything!

I am in the process of moving up to all grain brewing. I already have on hand a burner, 5 gallon igloo water cooler and a 40 quart aluminum heavy duty (thick walled) kettle. I already have a burner and only need a boil kettle at this point. I plan to go the the local beer distributor next week...

Well I guess that because there are so many PA members and friends on this forum and PA is the closet state to Virginia with a playoff team...I guess I'll root for the Steelers. :b

Anyone interested in an exchange of muscadine wines. I thinkl it would be a great opportunity to try others wines and also get critical feedback if neccessary. I would think the experience would outway the small cost of shipping. Any comments?

12-11-2010 I bottled a Pale Ale. Afte bottling I noticed that there was still priming sugar in the bottling bucket. At that point after the bottles were capped I figured I would wait and see what happens...No carbonation. The local HBS said that if I uncap and re-prime I may introduce O2 which...

Thursday night we had my Wife's side of the family over. My wife and I decided that instead of just randomly giving bottles of wine away we would have a wine tasting and let everyone chose which two wines they wanted. What a blast. Everyone really enjoyed it and they walked away with different...

I really don't need or want anything but if I did I would like to have in this order: 1. Floor Corker 2. Bottle filler 3. Kegging system Did I say I really don't need or want anything?:mny

There has been alot of posts/discussions about mucadines her lately. How long do you guys age your Muscadine wine? Heres what I have: 2 five gallon batches primary on 9-11 at 1.080 Both to secondary on 9-23 at 1.008 1st rack on 10-02 at .995 Backsweetened on 10-17 and stabilzed...

I have two 5 gallon secondaries of Muscadine from the same 15 gallon primary. One 5 gallon is clear the other 5 gallon has what appears to be a white powder forming on the inside surfaces of the carboy. This was also the case prior to racking and stabilizing. Picking up a rotating the carboy...

I have a SP fermenting from a blueberry Melomel slurry since Itransfered to secondary on 9-20-10. This is my second attempt at a slurry as the first didn't do so well. I have used lavin ec 118 on previous batches with no problem. ( 8 to be exact). However this batch with the slurry is still...

I have two carboys, one 6 gallon and one 5 gallon. The dang bung won't stay tight in the tops. They keep slipping up getting loose. What could be causing this? I am afraid that one 5 gallon batch of Muscadine may be bad before I realized this was happening. Steve

Blueberry Melomel recipe called for 6 TSP Yeast nutrient; 6 TSP Yeast Energizer; 3 TSP Acid Blend...I miss read the spoons and used Table spoons instead of tea spoons. Did I screw up? can this be salavged? What about too much acid blend. Primary is overflowing like mad.

Blueberry Melomel Pitched yeast at 9:00 pm last niight on a Blueberry melomel and obsevered fermentation starting around 11:00mPM. Problem is the fementation TODAY is so active that I have juice overfollowiing every where. Is this normal? Should I just accept this and clean it up? The primary...

I'm plan to follow Wades recipe as posted. Being I only picked 1.5 lbs of blueberries this summer I went to Sam's and bought 15#'s of frozen blueberries. Most of you say to use 5 plus pounds of fruit per gallon. Does the addition of 2 qts juice make up the difference or is it in the honey. I...