Recent content by l3luemang0

I am trying my first experimental gallon batch of strawberry wine. I went with 4 lbs of strawberries for the one gallon. I put the must in a 2 gal stainless steel cooking pot. Then added the potassium metabisfite and pectic enzyme. I put in about double the potassium metabisulfite measurement...

Just to follow up, I ended up selling this conical fermenter after the first batch. I seemed great in theory, and people on this site seem to rave about them for some reason, but I just was not sold on it. I put a lot of TLC into building it, and it came out great, but it just wasn't worth it to...

I have 15 gallons of unfiltered apple cider fermenting in a plastic conical. Everything is going fine with the conical so far. Last night, about 7 days into the primary fermentation, I did the first lees dump out the bottom. I slowly dumped about 1/2 gallon of thick, brown stuff right into a...