Recent content by tully72

Agreed about the headspace, but this is still fermenting. I added five more pounds of honey six days ago and will top off to the neck when I rack off all the sediment.

Thanks! Went 5 lbs to up the abv. Might be stuck now though...

This Pear Mead is 3 weeks old. I racked it to this carboy from a fermenting bucket last night. Looking back in my notes, the OG was only 1.085. Right now it's down to 1.005 with light airlock activity. My question is can I add another couple pounds of honey with water to top this off? Will this...

I am drinking a glass right now that carbed in ten days.

Brewcephus, Might I ask did you bottle directly from the primary? Also how many weeks old was it when you bottled and carbed?

Would love to hear from anyone who has carbed a batch of Apfelwein into 12 ounce bottles. How much sugar did you use… Any problems along the way. Just getting ready to do this tonight myself and would love to hear from you. Thanks…

I have a 5 gal batch that I started on 4/20/13. Im wanting to bottle it in grolsch bottles while adding sugar to carb it. How long should it stay in the primary before bottling?

Oh yes, we corked them. This was our first attempt at making wine as well as bottling and using an auto-siphon. We just happened to have two empty glasses to pour the overfull ones into :-) I will post the recipe when I get out of work. It is incredibly full bodied. I based my own recipe on a...

Figured it was time for an update on this... This was our first attempt at making any kind of wine. (I now have 35 gallons of various fruit wines at different stages.) We bottled this six months from the day that we pitched the yeast. The recipe we used ended up being a hybrid of two different...

Its been a little over 6 months since I started this and I want to backsweeten a bit. What are your thoughts on racking it onto fresh strawberries for color, flavor and sweetness. It has turned the color of lemonade, as they do, and I dont want to use red food coloring.

Started this last night, my first "mead"....used Welch's Black Cherry/Concord Grape juice instead. Bubbling away nicely.

Verge, My wife and I were looking to get a hive or two for our farm… In what state do you live and what is the procedure for getting some.

Thanks Yooper. Rough idea of how long to let it stay with the oak?

I have three batches of Welches going right now and I'm wanting to add oak to one to give them some variety. At what point in the recipe would you add oak chips?

Thanks Yooper! My first batch of Welches :-)