Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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Who says you can’t teach a dog new tricks. I was researching some ideas on the web and found out about a couple of different additives that can be used in wine. I honestly never knew about using asorbic acid or lysozyme. I’ll have to try the asorbic acid next time I bottle wine. Note: [...]

 
 
Ingredients:

5 to 6 pounds, Alexander’s pale malt extract
1/2 pound, crystal malt, crushed
10 ounces, dextrose (optional)
1-1/4 ounces, Cascade hops (boil)
1/4 ounce, Cascade hops (finish)
Munton & Fison ale yeast
corn sugar for priming

Procedure:
Steep crystal malt and sparge twice.
Add extract and dextrose and bring to boil.
Add [...]

 
This recipe is from Beerecipes.org
Beer Style: fruit beer, apricot ale
Recipe Type: extract
Description: How did it turn out? It was a fine light ale. Nice golden amber color with a good hop bite. About half way through a mug, I start noticing the taste of cloves. But I didn’t notice any apricot taste. I think [...]