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It takes me ages to bottle on my own. I sanitize by filling my bath, adding my sanitizer to the water and submerging all the bottles. It's great that you have a bottling wand, I couldn't imagine bottling without one. It's great that you've got help. With 2-3 people helping me it all takes...

If you want to keep these gaps and make them another color, just create a new layer and put it behind the layer that your label is on, then fill it with the color of your choice. If your design is locked and named "Background layer", just right click the layer and "duplicate layer". Then put the...

Looks really good! I have also recently got the experimental bug after brewing a gallon of Apfelwein. Yesterday I got a strawberry wine going, recipe located here. Only downside is that recommended conditioning time is 6 months, which I don't think I'll be able to handle, especially with an...

So long as you have a sediment trap on your racking cane you will be fine. My Caramel Cream Ale had quite a few floaties which I assumed were Irish moss since that was the only thing I just chucked in (hops were in bags). None of them got sucked up when I siphoned, which I assume is due to my...

Campden and wine stabilizer tablets will do a fine job of killing the yeasties.

Depends how dry you want your wine to be. If you want a little residual sweetness, you can halt fermentation with campden tablets and wine stabilizer tablets to prevent re-fermentation. If you're going for a dry wine then rack it and see how it goes. Patience :)

Oh my lordy lord this stuff is amazing! It is so drinkable, it's hard to believe that it is 9% AVB. I didn't need the 3 glass rule, 1 was enough! It's beautifully clear as well, with a nice yellow hue. This has definitely sparked my interest in winemaking, I'm going to try a strawberry wine...

Too true, it's extremely hard to find decently priced kegs over here. Even importing from the US, the shipping prices make it pointless. I do have friends that can get their hands on 80 pint kegs, but the weight and capacity makes them a bit too hardcore for me when I'm only doing 5 gallon...

Bottled this brew today, I could help but sample it. It's bordering orgasmic! I'm glad I used genuine bourbon vanilla extract as well, there is a soft nose of vanilla which is gorgeous, I can't get enough of it, and I'm sure using imitation "vanilla extract" would have just made it taste...

Just beautiful, they looks so professional.

I still pronounce it "wort", for some reason it feels really uncomfortable saying it the proper way. Hmph :(

I've never had a glass carboy, I've heard way too many horror stories about them breaking, and knowing my luck it would probably happen to me. Mine are non ported, although carboy caps do fit them so siphoning isn't that hard at all. Thoroughly recommended Price Payed: $30.00 Recommended? Yes...

I've never had a glass carboy, I've heard way too many horror stories about them breaking, and knowing my luck it would probably happen to me. Mine are non ported, although carboy caps do fit them so siphoning isn't that hard at all. Thoroughly recommended Price Payed: $30.00 Recommended? Yes...

That's nothing, I read mine bed time stories :D

There are ways to de-gas wine, like this lil fella here: Whizz Stick http://www.hopshopuk.com/cgi-bin/browse-no-frames.cgi?view=group&group=paddles Description: This device consists of a straight stainless steel shaft, one end of which fits into the chuck of a cordless drill. The other...

I just stick a bit of cling film over each end when I'm done.

If anyone plays flash games, try this one out: http://fizzlebot.com/sinthai/room.htm Turn the lights off and your sound up. :)

I have this too, my first extract brew in currently in secondary and there are some pretty strange things floating in the top. I also did not strain when I transferred to primary but all my hops were in muslin bags. I swear some of what's floating around are just hop leaves, which isn't a...

Pfffft who needs all that padding, rugby players are built like tanks!

Mine's still in primary, I've used an ale yeast so it's most likely going to turn out like a hard cider. :off: As for spelling I recommend using Firefox as your internet browser, it has a spell checker for forum posting for the lazy buggers like me *^_^*