Recent content by NoCornOrRice

Planting this summer: L'Acadie Blanc, NY Muscat, and Baco Noir. How far apart? Soil needs? Repelling deer and other beasts? Thx.

$139 million, typo, I assume. Check out this listing https://www.realtor.ca/l/bMeVq/ja?propertyIds=26758096

I am hoping for recommendations on good but not horrificly expensive big and tall office chairs. I had a high backed cloth one from Staples for close to 23 years that was amazingly comfortable, and when it finally disintegrated, I spent about 300 bucks Canadian on a mesh office chair. It is...

I had a bottle of StarSan that was several years old, not sure how many. It turned light brown-ish and smelled like fish.

This is the most expensive house in Canada: https://www.royallepage.ca/en/property/alberta/edmonton/5715-101a-av-nw/19730132/mlse4341533/ Lol

Moved a batch to fridge to cold crash before racking.

The Costco honey is a consistently good option. The best one I did was that with Lalvin 71b to about 12% abv, with juice and zest of lemon, lime, and grapefruit. As a still mead. It was beautiful. The absolute worst, by far was with allegedly ultra premium local "wildflower" honey which had a...

+5 Gallons of very hoppy mead @14%, with 71b = 422.75

I found a used fridge that should hold 2-3 kegs for cheap so going with that.

I may do this. As I have all the components, including a dead keezer.

I'm about to haul another large, heavy, & dead keezer out of the basement.. sigh. Has anyone tried making an electric jockey box, essentially a tiny fridge with a cold plate? Did it work ok? I need something compact and cheap as a stop gap measure for now.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/25410721/55-anchorage-avenue-saint-john Just wow.

Malbec/Cab/Merlot blend... mmm. Also, HB stout.

Answering my own question, lol. It seems modern caps don't have the membrane as a separate part anymore. Looks like it is fused right to the cap, so that makes things easy.

It has been a LONG time since my bottling days. Plz remind me if the PET caps (new) need to have the membrane (blue part) removed for sanitizing or if caps can be immersed as-is. Thx.