Recent content by Adrenalized

Thank you. Im gonna read up on mlf.

Well maybe its not. I did add alot of water, It just felt like the grapes should have added more sugar. Anyway. Today I did another racking to get rid of the raisins. And also I toasted some American white oak, 30 min @ 210C Some calculations. My starting mash was about 28L @ OG 1.080...

So, I take it as the hydrometer is not affected by particals and a thick mash. (I did not have distilled water to test my hydrometer but with tapwater @ 20°C it showed 1.000) Yesterday I did filter off the grape pulp. It left me with 23L in the fermenter. I ended up with pouring in 1kg of...

No the grapes used were fresh from the vines. In previous experiments with fresh garden fruits, I have alwas covered the fruits with boiling water. Mix it around and then top up with cold water before adding my yeast and that have worked fine. This is my first time using using grapes, and...

So.. Well I was gonna make a small batch of blackberry melomel, but I had only about 1.7kg (3.7 pounds) of berries in my freezer and the grapes in my greenhouse were about to be overly ripe. So I thought I'd do grape - blackberry mix. But once I started picking grapes I realized that I had...