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The starsan will work fine. I use a closed 7gl bucket for my primary and the carboys for secondary. it is when racked into the 2nd that the head space is important. the yeast needs O2 to fement in the primary but don't let it sit in the primary any longer then it needs. I use a blow off tube...

it is in the grass now. I had used liquid yeast and rehydrated dry put it is done now. durring the week it found a bacteria that was at home. when i opened the fermenter today it had a slime on top. so out it went. LIVE AND LEARN. read twice, drink once. lost a whole day of picking ,crushing and...

while pressing my apples last week we had some of the old cider. told the bother in law to add the metasulfite. it was to be at 1/4 teaspoon to the 5 gl but it ended up as 1/4 a gl so 1 1/4teaspone in six gl. I found this out when the yeast would not take after pitching and repitching. had to...

so what is HSA please?

looks like a nice pile of hops. I grow hops and vacum pack it and freeze it as soon as i have it off the plant. so if you are going to breww in a day or so in to the freg in a air tight bag. freeze or dry the others as they will rot fast. it is wet so it has more water in it so wiegh out up to...

good thanks. into the freg with some camden tabs. will get back in a few months when i rack it again. the troll

Four lb is not many pears. if you pulp them it will help add flavor and pears are very mild in flavor. try this a 4 inch pvc tube or steal pipe ace should have some short lenghts and a baseball bat. drop a pear in smash lift tupe drop in pear. if the pears are ripe it will go fast and can be...

it's a full 5gl . Camden, 5 more tabs or is this to much? I have only used them on the fruit. so2, ph I can see a wine lab is in the future.

how cold. I have a loggering chest in the brewery. could set it there for along time. would like to see what the grapes will do so I don't want to add extra sweet to it. it has that champagne yeast and it would most ferment more. it is right now anyway.

I use the camden to kill wild yeast. would adding some now be ok? the grapes are grown hot and dry. We are at 6000 feet and a humid day is 20% for us. less then 10inch of rain a year. the grapes are on a drip system. we had to pick them. the clusters were falling apart if touched. I...

This was a good year for fruit here in north western N.M. my wife and I picked 240lb of grapes off of the old vines that were on the property when we moved in. I had to do a lot of pruning to get them back in shape . Hey had what might have been 15 years of old growth on them and only gave 15-20...

we make blackberrie wine each year this year we have one big butt load of berries. i do it this way and get a fine tasting wine. 18- 25+lb berries crush by hand but in a strianer bag place in fermenter. 18lb is good more seems to only take up space in the fermenter and does not add to the...

Hay all I found this site today, very cool. I was looking for info on malting. See I planted barley this year. the dum stuff grew well so i got a scythe and mowed it down. had to build a thrasher to run it though and now i have some bigass bags of grain. this is good for i have some very...

Good day all. I am new to the site but not to brewing. the head is made in the mash and boil. so I say chil the bad boys down for a week or two and drink um. in the mean time get a new kit and do a secondary fementation before bottleing. go on to the next batch and take notes. You had no...