Hello I recently tried an all grain imperial stout recipe and after 3 days i have basically no noticeable activity in the airlock. Mashed in at 154F for 60minutes on 22lbs of grain with 7 gallons of water into an improvised cooler mash-tun, strained the grain off brought 6 gallons of very tasty...
I made a 5 cup batch using a mixture of Jasmine (3c dry) and sushi rice (2c dry) and it produced around 1,100ml of delicious milk colored rice wine. Though i think that if I had a better way to separate the liquid I might have squeezed out ~1,500ml. Honestly though I did not expect it to be so...
I moved the batch to a 5 gallon carboy added some more brown sugar and another package of yeast, it's been going steady since then. Forgot to update, but thank you guys for the advice.
I plan on making a fresh batch of mead going for a vanilla cinnamon flavor, and was wanting a bit of feedback on my ingredients and process.
Yeast: Lalvin K1-V1116
Batch Size (Gallons): 5
Boiling Time (Minutes): None
Ingredients
1 packet Lalvin K1-V1116
18lbs wildflower honey
5...
Threw together a 10 gallon batch of cider the other day and separated it into 2 buckets. All I had on hand was a simple food grade 5 gallon bucket and a 6 gallon bucket. I'm using 1 1/2 packages of Lavin Ec-1118 per bucket which started going almost immediately (added the yeast when the mix was...