Recent content by Panik

Thakog, I chose option #4 and pitched the batch. I had another 3ga batch of Graff that turned that I bottled at the same time and there was no comparison. There was no way the batch that I oaken was ever going to turn out even half as good as the batch of Graf f. It was one of those cut your...

So a funny thing happend on the way to bottling my oaked, aged cider. I think I wound up with an infection from not fully sterilizing the oak cubes I used (home toasted oak). This cider started as a variant of Graham's English cider about and kinda took off from there. It has aged for about four...

Thanks man!

I was doing a bit of reseach and reading trying to up my knowledge about unfermentable sugars today and I came across a reference from 1997 on the mad fermentationist website about making homemade carmel for brewing using karo corn syrup and diammonium phosphate: "The homemade caramel was...

Thanks for the correction Clayton. If I'm not mistaken isn't what you're talking about basically what Brandon is doing with his graff receipe?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and show my inexperience but..... Instead of boiling your whole wort what about the idea of taking a smaller quantity of good quality juice say maybe >1 ga, depending on your batch size, and throwing it on the stove and very slowly reduce it to the point where...

Whoops! Thanks for the head up on the mispelling - missed that in the rework. Thanks for the tip on the fonts. I'll check them out this evening.... one of the problems I had been having was readability once the label was shrunk down to printing size. I'll give those fonts a try.

Dude that looks awesome! The red with the "frosted" detailing really pops! As a thought that might look good printed on translucent labels when it gets to bottling time.

Gratus - You are giving me way too much credit. Thank you....but as I said early I did a little shopping on the internet to find the base images. I wish I could take credit for drawing these women. While I can manage to edit and change images, developing them from scratch is sadly beyond my...

Thanks for the suggestions machinelf! I agree about the spacing of the text on the side label and will make the change when I get a moment. Unfortunately using lower case on the general text in the side bar actually makes it harder to read when the label is printed due to shrinkage issues. I...

LOL, I love it! The roughness from doing it in paint actually works really well with the whole concept!