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Well after following your advice, I went to stir it again today and I no longer detect any barnyard odor from it. Is my mind playing tricks on me, or can the smell actually go away? I figured that adding the yeast nutrient and stirring would only prevent it from getting any worse.

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Ok, done I will stir frequently and report back later with results. Thank you for the advice. Do you think that the smell is related to a yeast issue? Do you think it indicates a problem?

I am fermenting a mead right now, started on 3/5/13. It was supposed to be a "3 week mead" recipe I got from LHBS and modified a little bit. 15Lbs clover honey 2lbs buckwheat honey 3 tsp tannin 1 tsp fermax 1 packet EC-1118 OG: 1.140 3 weeks later (3/27), gravity should have been down...

I made a "cider" last month. Really it was made from apple juice and not apple cider. After I made and tasted apfelwein, I wanted something stronger, with more to it. I mixed the juice with honey, maple syrup, et.al. plus spices cinnamon and nutmeg. Apparently I put too much in, as now its...

Drinking Carlo Rossi sangria makes my movements a little more fluid but nothing really worth writing home about. Unless I eat half a jar of jalapeno stuffed olives with it....

Not really. It was in a better bottle. Once I realized what I did, I added as much cold water as would fit, but that had to be less than 1/3 gal. But I think after sitting for as little as an hour in a better bottle would cool it down to room temp. No way to confirm that as I did not go back and...

So are you saying that pitching my yeast at that temp can cause my cider to taste bad? Does it make any difference that it will be a cooler temp for the rest of the fermentation?

...And everything seems fine. Actually better than fine; I had super active fermentation within an hour. It was a brain fart, not done intentionally. But I've pitched the yeast too hot before also and nothing bad happened. This was ec-1118 in a cider. At the LHBS demos I've been to, it's been...

I made some blueberry wine last week from 15lbs of frozen blueberries. I pureed the blueberries in a food processor. Now all the blueberry solids are up at the top. A guy at LHBS said I might need to regularly push the solids down with a sanitized stick or something. Is this good advice? Should...

I don't have any problems. I've never made a kit wine, therefore I've never f**ked with one and ive never f**ked one up. I've made beers from kits, and beers from grains. I'm New to making wine. I've always taken great liberties on the instructions to the beer kits and always made good beers...

You know, I've been reading everybody's comments and digesting them, along with my own thoughts. Your comment here is pretty much my conclusion. Would it make me feel better about my wine if I flew to France and picked the grapes by hand? Probably not. Would I feel better if I grew the...

Being new on the scene, I wasn't aware that this was already a point of discussion. Now That you've said it though, it seems obvious that it would be one of the top 10 most discussed things in making wine. More epiphanies where that one came from.

I wasnt aware of that. I thought some plastics were totally safe. I'd like to think that if the FDA approves plastic coke bottles then its safe to drink the coke. I DO think that to an extent, but I also have seen enough to raise doubt in the FDA. Anyway there's really no getting away from it...