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Hello there, I started my first extract beer (a bock) at december 30, and left for 2 weeks fermenting (although the recipe said 4-7days). After that, I putted the extra sugar that the recipe said and bottled, and left them for 1 week. Then, I putted them all in a fridge and left for 2 weeks...

Hello. I said in these past few days that I will make mead. Recipe: 1 Kg of honey 2,9L of water 15g of mead yeast 5 g of dead bread yeast --------------------------------- I was thinking about using orange juice, fresh from the fruit. I have very tasty and sweet oranges. What do you guys think...

Hello. Can I use dead bread yeast as nutrients to the mead yeast?

Hello. I'll make mead. 1:2 ratio. I will use 1 Kg of honey and 2,9 L of water, (honey has a density of 1,42 g/mL, so it is 2,84 L of water). I'll put 1 package of dead bread yeast (11g) as nutrients for the mead yeast (I boiled about 0,5 L of water and added the bread yeast). More, I will put 1...

Hello. I have my first beer (it is a Bock) finishing his fermentation ( I leaved for 15days fermenting in a room, about room temperature, or 5 degrees less ). It is currently bottled finishing the second fermentation, and carbonation. It stayed 1 week bottled at room temperature and 1 week in a...

Hello. I have my first beer finishing his fermentation. It is currently bottled finishing the second fermentation, and carbonation. I started december 31th and I bottled january 15th, and I will open and taste the beer january 28/29th. What do you guys think?

Hello, I currently have 20L of beer in my fermenter...fermenting. I filled it on december 31, making two weeks tomorrow, january 14. The problem is, a friend of mine got covid and I'm at this time confined in my bedroom in my college. I only go 2 weekends per month home. So...this weekend I...

If I brew a beer and use honey, do I need to put yeast nutrient? Or it's not necessary since I have the beer wort?

I am a fan of Harry Potter, and know that I became obsessed with beer and general brewing, I saw butterbeer. This is not real beer right?

Hello. Can someone explain to me what exatly is root beer and how it's made?

Hello, I have 20L of Bock beer fermenting, and it passed 2 days since I putted the wort with the yeast in the fementer bucket. The problem is: I think the fermentation began, but I have a problem...there's a leak... I used hot glue and putted around the rubber and around the airlock, to assure...

Why do I need to stir the mead during fermentation, and not the beer?

Hello, I used a extract jit as my first experience of beer making... I have two questions: 1st- How much time until the fermentation begins? It passed 24h already since I putted everything in the fermenter bucket... 2nd- In the instruction says that the fermentation last for 4-7days...but I...

Hello. I'm about to make beer, but there's a topic that I'm not sure what to do... How do I rehydrate the yeast?

Do I need to be supplying everyday oxygen to the must? If so, can I leave my must open in my porch, secured from the rain and with a net above?

So...I decided to try to make mead... I used this: - 1Kg of local honey; - 4L of filtered water (3.5L hot and 0.5L room temperature); - 6 raisins (chopped in half); - Lemon peel (the outer skin only); - Tangerine peel (the outer skin only); - 1 lemon juice; - 1/2 cinnamon stick; - fresh herbs...

Do I need to do 2 fermentation with my mead? And also, I read about oxygenating the mead...what is that?

1 Kg oh honey from my region; 3,34 L of water; 1 cinnamon stick; 6 raisins cut in half; lemon peel (the outer skin). What do you think?