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Is there a problem using isopropyl alcohol to sterilize things like hydrometers and wine thieves before immersing them in the must? This seems it would be more effective and faster than dissolving k-meta and waiting a few minutes for it to dry. Or maybe there are other proprietary sanitizers...

Does anyone pick fresh apples and press them? My books say do that and I did, but it's pretty damn expensive compared with the sort of prices you guys are talking about. Even if I buy farmstand apples for 50c/pound it works out to about $10/gallon (this also seems to be because I don't seem to...

Okay, thank you everyone. I'm no longer hyperventilating like a little girl.

I've just started my first few batches and all of them smell disgusting. One 1-gallon batch was made from pasteurized store juice -- after fermenting great for a week, lotsa bubbles etc, I drank a sample and it doesn't taste like much of anything, but the smell of it is overpowering. Like...