Recent content by LawMonkey

I like the rough/hand drawn look; it reminds me of a certain artist, whose name eludes me (actually, I think I don't know it at all--I just know his/her work). If you colour it, definitely go with something very light--watercolours seem to be the wisest choice. Definitely don't go for a...

Hot diggity! You're now my favorite person ever. :D

More a question than a testimonial at this point--I'd -like- to use them for just about everything, but I'm worried that they're not sufficiently air-tight to keep out invading microorganisms and O2.

Aside from the fact that using a bung entitles me to call the mouth of my carboys a bunghole :p , I'd prefer to use carboy caps in every way. They're easier to get on, off, and facilitate easy, sanitary, siphoning. More than anything else, I don't have to wait for them and the inside of the...

Woodstone Creek here in Cincinnati are, so far as I know, currently the only licensed micro-distillery in Ohio. From the little chat I had with one of the owners while I was sipping their meads (check out Taliesin and Crowne Amber if ever you have the chance!), I got the feeling that it'd be a...

Thanks for the help, guys. I'll keep my bottle around for spot sanitizing and figure out some way to check the pH. I had a bit of a problem with a bad batch, where I used the spray bottle to sanitize the inside of bottles, but I suspect that may have had other causes...

A quick question. I've got a bit of starsan that I mixed up and put in a plastic spray bottle that's been sitting out on the sink for a while. It's a clear bottle in an area where it does get light. I did it as a handy way to conserve solution and (especially) for sanitizing individual bits of...

I wouldn't even know where to start! I'd probably be nutty enough to try it once if I ever did find a recipe, though. :D

While I was sitting here waiting for the time to do the pectic enzyme on my first ever batch of country wine (Raspberry, from berries hand picked today, following the recipe from Terry Garey's book), I decided to have a look at the wikipedia article on country wine. It mentions all of the...

I figured there'd be at least a few Cincinnati-area folks around. I can't say as I want to stay here--after school I'd like to move to Washington state--but it's not such a bad place to be. :) RR: So far i've just done Listermann's kits, but once I get around into crazier stuff, sure.

I did a few kits several years back; the first was superb, the second not-so-good. The third I didn't care for, but others did, so I gave it all away and asked to get my bottles back. The bottles never did come back, but I kept hoping. At some point I realized my bottles were lost to the...