Brewing With Total Confidence
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Just finished planting my fall garden: flat leaf lettuce, chervil, radish, carrots, cilantro, oregano, and snap beans. We have very mild winters...
Tried cider for first time w/ champagne yeast and it came out very dry. Won't win awards for it but I liked it. Have a cyser in bottles should be...
Welcome!
I started out with a hand help bottle capper. Hated it. From broken bottles to difficulty getting a good seal. I graduated to this:...
My advise. Have many things in various states of fermenting and being ready to drink that way you don't obsess on the one thing you are working...
I have been brewing for just over a year and can tell you opinions vary on that. I'm sure there are more experienced brewers here who will correct...
I boil 2 gallon batches and begin with 3 gallons of wort which I boil down to 2 gallons over an hour. Lid off, everything I've read suggests the...
That would have been so easy to do!
Successfully made my first gallon of hard sparkling cider. Came out very dry with a hint of apple flavor. I liked it. Next fermented and bottled...
Bon jour from a French-Acadian (Cajun) in south Louisiana.
UPDATE: Cracked open a bottle just now and it is VERY peppery and bitter. Might need much more time in the bottle to mellow hopefully. Might...
Happy you "hopped" on board. :)
I have been brewing for just under a year and brew 2 gallons at a time. Chose small batch brewing to learn the process and to try more styles of...
My "brewery" is a closet under our stairs LOL. Welcome.
Racked the Skeeter Tea to secondary today. Gravity is down from 1.055 to 1.015. Hope it comes down some more. One thing I struggle with is...
The Skeeter Tea name is a take on "Skeeter Pee" a lemon wine many people make. The color of the first batch I made was the color of tea so that's...
I live in south Louisiana and have been brewing beer for just under a year so I am still learning about EVERYTHING! Currently brew small batches...
