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Three days ago I started a 3.5 gallon here the recipe I used it is supposed to be a high gravity wine 3- bottles of 1.75 liter apple juice from concentrate 6- pounds of granulated sugar Top off with water mix 1-packet of redstar premium cuvee I made a starter for the yeast and pitched...

I'm about to make another wine with a high gravity something around 1.115 or 15%abv. I'm going to use redstar premium cuvee, and fermaid after lag time should this work?

Should I rehyrdate fermaid k before putting it in the must, and if so how would I go about doing it? I'm cofussed the because the package doesn't say to rehydrate but it say to make starter.

So I was bord yesterday and wanted to see what I could do with some extra yeast. So I threw about 5 liters of apple juice, six and a half pounds of regular sugar, then topped it off to right around three and a half gallons. Then I pitched the yeast after making a starter. It's been about 24...

So I'm going to starting a 3 gallon batch from apple juice tomorrow, I'm going to use 3 bottles @ 1.75 each bottle the juice each contains 25grams of sugar per serving, which should put it around 1.25 pounds of sugar already in the mixture with out the raw sugar added. I'm shooting for somewhere...

I've been hearing of people fermenting in coolers, not as in refrigerators but like portable coolers like the orange Gatorade ones. I happen to have one of these that I've never even used it's food grade plastic number 2 I believe. The only two reason I could think that it would work is because...

So I was at a local store today and found that they had apple juice on sale for a $1.00 a container that holds 1.75 liters of juice. It was all in date and good to use sooooo, I bought every bit of it, 11 containers. And since I don't have a proper carboy yet I went a head and bought 5 one...

Hi, I'm new to brewing and I was wondering, how much sugar in ever gallon can ec1118 handle. I broke my hydrometer that I just bought and wont be able to get back to the LBS for another week. I know this yeast can handle 18% so I just kind of need to know a rough estimation of how many...

Hi, I'm about to start a sugar, and water mixture with cut up apples using ec1118 for my yeast. I was wonder if the cut up apples would be sufficient nutrient for the yeast to properly ferment? It's only going to be a gallon just as a test to see if I can add flavoring to it so I really just...

Hi, I'm completely new to even the idea of brewing. So I would like some help on my first very basic brew. I have researched and have a decent idea of what I should expect and not expect from my first try at this. With this being my first time I thought that it would be a good to reach out to...