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I've got a starter chiller and a 6 gallon stainless brewpot I'm looking to get rid of after upgrades. The pot is pretty thin but quite serviceable with a lid, the chiller is 50' x 1/4" copper with plastic fittings. Also a chipped but working sink adapter. In other words, cheap stuff so no...

I've been toying around with the idea of a Hawaiian Punch wine. No, not buying the red stuff and dropping yeast in, I mean going to the source ingredients. Apparently the base formula is apple, apricot, guava, orange, papaya, passion fruit, and pineapple. Juice is readily available at...

I just got a new 8 gallon pot to replace one of my 6 gallons so I can easily boil 6 or 6.5 gallons. Problem is, between the greater size and the new one being short and wide rather than narrow and tall it doesn't seem to boil as intensely even with two burners of my apartment stove, and I ended...

Okay, so I'm making a honey blonde ale. All is good, I hit over target gravity but that's okay, I pour 2.5 gallons of iodophor solution into the fermenter to sanitize it, and while it's chilling I stretch a paint strainer over the bucket to strain out the hops. I pour the cold wort in, then see...

When placing my last AHS order, I decided that in my attempts to build up some ready beer by sticking to fairly quick recipes, I would try a rye beer. Similar to wheat, good summer drinking - well, maybe that's out the window now since when I was looking at recipes and joking on other threads I...

I did my first set of labels last night, though just some simple black and white text now that I'll soon have more than two brews in the same type of bottle. I mentioned to some friends that I had to figure out some better label design, and one handily volunteered this logo today. Okay, so...

Bottling my second extract batch (mocha stout), while brewing my first all-grain batch (EvilTOJ's Arrogant Bastard clone), and things are going all right for my first clueless attempt. Mash temperature is high but I get it down, and I boil some priming sugar while I wait. Set up to bottle...

My first brew (in the Mr. Beer) is finishing up and ready to bottle very shortly, and since my new five gallon kit is busy fermenting some cider I'm going for another two gallon batch with one of my remaining refills and am looking for a little advice since I'd like to experiment more with this...

New brewer in Rochester, NY here. Found the site while doing some research on ordering a Mr. Beer kit, and two weeks later I've already added a five gallon kit, so working on some cider too. I've mostly learned the hardest wait is for that first beer. At least I hope it's the hardest.

I'm trying my first batch of cider, 4 gallons of sweet cider and one gallon of apple juice with some added dextrose and Lalvin EC-1118. Bad news is, the cider has sorbate, so going with some advice I'd seen elsewhere I made a yeast starter with a half gallon on the unpreserved apple juice and...