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Hi My first mead is almost done fermenting. It's at 1.001 and i think it should be done in a about a week. I've calculated the gravity to be around 16 pecent abv. And I've let it run dry. Basically i was wondering if there is anything I could do to "cool" the hotness down a peg. I used...

on second thought dont do it. I was wondering this the other day myself. like what if you twisted the earth ground wire at the spa panel to the to the HLT. So you have proper ground to the HLT. Also connecting the ground wire from the "Brew Run" to the eath ground at the spa panel. So your...

lol at pulling the pin on the grade. :o guess ill peel em mashem and boil em and givem a try

ok so it continued to ferement really slow and ended up with a stuck fermentation after a month and a half. It was well short of finished and wouldnt restart with a yeast starter. So i've ended up freezing it and pouring the concentrate off. Which it actually doesnt taste bad it's just overly...

So basically i've got these pear trees and i get a few truck loads of pears every year. I was wondering if they would make a decent wine. The thing i have the most concern about is if you eat 2-3 of the pears raw u WILL poop urself. But if you cook the pears or make a relish with them...

I put a peice of pantyhose with a rubber band on my airlock to keep them out. Fruit flies are tiny here in florida.

uh oh... got on a huge bender and drank about all of it in a few days...... It did taste better at 3 weeks than 2 though for sure. But it wasnt even done fermenting. I'm not good at waiting. I sometimes open the cabnet where my brews are and just watch them bubble for like 5 minutes...

Got hammered last night on my 1st batch of homebrew. It was a cider and i let it get to 16%. I got drunk. I mean slobbering, stumbling, forget wtf i did drunk.:drunk: And i've gotten used to having the worst hangover from those occasions. But when i woke up this morning I was amazed. I...

Hello I'm samping my 1st homebrew which is a cider. The airlock slowed alot and i thought i would take a hydrometer reading to see if it's done. It's only been fermenting a couple of weeks. And last week it smelled pretty strong. Like something you wouldnt want to drink. And the smell went...

ageing mead about a year. cider: gonna start drinking it asap. wine: gonna drink that when the cider runs out and it tastes decent. everything is aimed at about 15-18% abv so it may take a while.. I have no idea as this is my first batch really. But i got like 7 gallons on the way so it's...

yea i found a little 2 much information on it.. after reading up on it for over a hour i decided to ask for help. As some of the info was years old even. ____ Isn't the #1 recycle symbol the same material as a better bottle?

so yea i gotta water bottle 4 gal. with a recyling symbol on the bottom with a one in it. Am i gonna be ok to age in this thing? Or is ageing a glass only thing?

if i like mead i'll probably start beekeeping. my fater was a beekeeper and still has the honey sligers/suits and everything really. Hope my 1st batch of mead turns out right so i'll know if i like it or not _______ On a side note I may bee wrong but i think you can just buy a queen been and...

spin the fridge around so the door is against a wall

does this mean it's gonna taste terrible and i may as well toss it? Or will it be ok for a few days when the ac gets goin again? it doesnt smell nearly as bad as a rhino fart though.

Hi all i've got a cider, mead and wine goin and the cider smells waaay stronger than the others. It's not necessarily a bad smell it just smells more like rotting apples. Which i assume is a good thing? Was just wondering if it's normal and if not could it be contaminated and turning to...

will get some camdem tablets.. they =seem to be usefull. teach me o great ones....

oh and ona side note the pantyhose and ruberbands seems to bee +.1 over the airlocks. Haven't even seen a fly since i wrapped em up with the footie girlie thingies.

unfortunatley the liquor store was closed.... I pulled on the door a few times just to make sure. +rep4allbutton bucuz i dont know if there is such a boton *8() ty

So yea i got the cap on the thing and somehow the little butthole made it in. I live in the stix and finding any sanitizer is a no go. All i could find that is remotely close is listerine. I'm thinking about putting listerine in my airlocks to kill any bacteria the fruit flys might leave...