Recent content by bauglir

Thanks for the responses! So the general takeaway is that if it's something that takes longer to brew/ferment, switching is best, but for something with a shorter fermentation period like beer I can just keep it in the bucket for the entirety of the process until I bottle it?

I have a one-gallon carboy and a two-gallon plastic fermentation bucket that both came in an into beer-making kit. I'm doing primarily wild-fermentation brews (from home-pressed cider, raw-honed-based mead, etc). I read in Katz's The Art of Fermentation that it's best to put your nascent brew...

You don't think it would be potentially hazardous? I've made wild yeast mead a couple of times in the past and it turned out very well, but I've never dealt with anything quite like this. My guess is that the swelling of the bag is from the CO2 but I'm wondering if there's a chance it could be...

Howdy all, I had some fruit salad in a ziplock bag that got lost in the back of my fridge for a month. When I found it the bag was completely swelled up, and upon opening it I noticed that the fruit didn't look mushy and did not smell at all rotten, but rather like a sweet cider. I decided...