Recent content by Cdreid

I'm a trucker and im going back over the road. I'll be RELIABLY home a day to a day and a half. I want to clone victoria bitter and experiment with some 1 gallon batchs of some other stuff to find something light but with taste that i like. Thing is the hometime. Can't check on the brew. I cant...

I realise this is old but you know this kind of idiotic addlebrained comment is why people laugh at all of you as wannabe snobs. People have different tastes. A lot of you prefer muddy horrid smelling beers with garbage (yeast) floating in them that make 99% of humanity retch. Different...

Justibone these arent "persimmon trading" forums either but theres a thread about it. If the ATF wants to raid my house because theyre terrified i have a pot in the kitchen with an upside down lid dripping alcohol they can have at it. I dont see why people feel the need to control others...

Just FYI i agree with both Justibone and Brewpahl. My post was the easiest way to do it. It isnt rocket science and hobbyists make it scary for newbies so the point was to show a newbie that he could make drinkable stuff within a weekish (two weeks is realistically the minimum if you have...

Ya'll aint helpin. 400d this is how you'll get it. Get some kind of juice. get an empty food grade container... like a milk jug. clean/sanitise it best you can (if its glass use extremely diluted bleachwater then rinse like nuts). Pour juice in container. put yeast (ANY kind) in a half cup...

This is definitely Epic. Your wine is either going to be... scary.. or Legendary! Since you apparently have turned a farmer into a junky you might think about getting a paint mixer for a drill. Others have used them for exactly this to mix. I hope you have somewhere to store the ferment warm...

That is SWEET. I assume the manifold is AL. Have you considered anodising it? A Big pot, kitchen stove and some RIT dye should do it. That would look sweet black or dark blue.

Thanks a lot that was incredibly helpful. And that is something like i expected. I've read an incredible amount of posts at various places stating orange wines turned out extremely harsh and bitter. It is probably the resugaring that really made the difference. And i have to say using hte...

Actually it is totally legal to distill in the US with the right paperwork which is easy to complete.

Ive recently made 2 citrus wines. The first was mostly pineapple/cranberry (with some raisins etc for nutrients). It turned out to have a strong bite as a young wine. I was rushing it to give to a friend for her birthday after volunteering to do so over many beers. I expect after aging long...

1 amp = 1000ma. Some companies label stuff weird. I cannot concieve of a situation in which you could have a problem.

Just in case anyone searchs out this post. The beer turned out fantastic (and its still not technically done). Amber DME and Safale-05. Boiled , cooled in water and fermented about 5 daysish. Then sugared for carbonation. Grabbe a coke bottle full saturday night.. because i could. NO hops. It...

This explains sooooo much of life

Have you thought of changing the way youre backpacking? I grew up in the mountains so i know the effort youre talking about and packs get heavy quick. But if youre not one ofthe "always moving" hikers who never actually enjoy the woods you could buy or build a foldable ultralight cart to drag...

Fruit flies mean youre not cleaning something well enough. I was a bartender for years and in an imperfectly sanitary bar you see fruitflies. In a clean bar you dont. Ever. Every time ive ever seen fruit flies it was because there was alchohol/sugar somewhere. In the well. Sink. Under the sink...