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Whew.. sampled my SP.. Good stuff.. head ache today.. It is a sneaky little bugger. :cross:

Question.. I don't have irish moss or gelatin handy. i do have sparkaloid. Will it help with the muddy red hook I just put in secondary?

Grains i put in cupcake pan and freeze. Then put the whole grain cupcakes in baggies for storage. one in the bird feeder at a time. Or can make dog treats whenever. the gunk trub I put in the kitchen trash and tie off. It ends up in the landfill, hopefully no dogs have to go there to eat.

Arpolis, Could you please give a ducks and bunnies on how to create a yeast cake? Your how to start from White Grape juice was just what I needed. Now trying to be prepared for the next batch.. all the discussion makes me know this will become a favorite summer beverage. Thanks David

This is going very well.. Thanks so very much! Not to get greedy but I am, if I keep going and get a gallon and a quart could I keep the quart as a start for the next round and build it to a gallon plus then? New to all this and finding yeast very interesting little critters.

Just be sure what does invert mean? I near boiled the water 8 cups with 16 cups of sugar and a 1/3 of a bottle of lemon juice for 30 minutes. Is that what it means?:confused:

I checked and the lemon juice has sodium bisulfate.. Is the yeast dead or is that just the reason for slow. So I need to get some white grape juice and build a better batch? Or do I just have a big bucket of lemonade ready for the summer?

I am on day three with SP no yeast action. I have used two packets of Red Star Pastuer Champaign. Started the first in quart jar with water and it was working along fine when I added to SP. 48 hours later nothing. I started another packet and added it last night. Still nothing. Our house...

Tip of the hat to Mike for a great idea. Note the wheels from a discarded desk chair on the bottle tree. Makes it easy to move the tree around as needed.

Creative DIY

EHV Posted "I just finished up my 1/2gallon test batch before my main 5 gallon batch is done. It fermented to .995 then treated with sorbate and 1/2 a cam tab. Then backsweetened with cran grape and sugar to 1.020. Tasted great. Is it necessary to treat the wine even after fermentation has...

How does this rate compared to Skeeter Pee? Anybody who have tried both?

As I only have the 6 gallon bucket and 5 gallon carboy.. what kind of blow off did you get? I noticed Primary water to 6 gallons then secondary in 5 gallon jug.. did you get a gallon of blow off? where did the extra go? I want to try this so it is a real question, As SWMBO would be very...

CLR is safe... If you rinse well. It works great in coffee pots too.

Warning.. I did a quick look up on #3 plastic. It is pvc and found this No. 3 plastics are at risk of releasing toxic breakdown products like phthalates into food and drinks. Also, the manufacturing of PVC is known to release highly toxic dioxins into the environment." I don't trust everything...