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I'm curious if anyone made progress on glycol with the ESP? I see the initial commit LBussy put out there about a year ago but haven't gone much further. I wanted to see if there was progress before I dug into things myself. My glycol chiller is coming along. I plan to use constant fridge to...

I haven't been monitoring fermentation temperature, just ambient. I'm looking to setup something with an arduino for tracking. Assuming yeast is Lalvin EC-1118 or similar based on other kits. Rehydrating 30 minutes prior to pitching in room temperature water. Kit doesn't have nutrients, thinking...

I've done about 6 wine kits, and they've all been ok, but almost all of them have come out with varying levels of banana smell. All the kits are Wine Expert kits, but the grapes range from Pinot Grigio to Nebbiolo. The reds end up with more banana smell than the whites. Primary is in a bucket...

I'm dredging up an old thread, but wanted to float this recipe back up. We made it a couple months ago, and it turned out to be one of the better beers I've made. The base beer was exactly the same. The flavors were combined in a 5 gallon batch. The 5 limes were zested and 5 habanero...

+1 I'd done a English bitter ale I'd done 3 times before and the third time, it was way off, turns out I was using a different thermometer and it was wrong. Needed to calibrate them a little more often.

I'm about to buy some more equipment for mead/wine making, and was hoping to get some advice. I plan on doing 5 gallon batches of plain mead, cyser, cider, dandelion wine, and maybe a wine get in some order relatively soon. I want to order several better bottles to do bulk aging in, but I'm...