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Yes. I have done it. After the steeping cycle, I run the green malt through an old meat grinder into the mash tun. Make sure you do a protein rest. The rootlets have a lot of protein and you can't seperate the barley and rootlets without drying it. The drying and kilning is the hardest part of...

You should degas 2 or 3 times a day in the first week anyway and ad the additions after a good shake up cuz you get better results than just adding it all at once.

And usually after degassing there should be no more CO2 to bubble.

You can add bananas to your must. PEEL one VERY RIPE banana per gallon of wine, chop up and place in a small amount of water. Boil for 15 – 20 minutes. Let it cool, STRAIN the liquid and pour into your fermenter.

Yeah on his site it says that the Garlic Wine won first place or gold medal,I wonder what crazy wine show would award 1st place to a garlic wine. Maybe it's just me but I'm the sort of person who thinks that garlic ice cream(or wine) is not a brilliant idea, seriously garlic is for cooking not...

same here Calder,the minute I read the sticky I knew there will be thousands of bottle bombs in kitchens all around the world, have you nuts ever heard of campden?

wow man so after reading in how many ways this can go wrong isn't it better to ferment dry to FG 1.000 and then use only a little sugar to bottle carb and leave the bootles alone?

why don't you just try Pasteurizing the bottles: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/easy-stove-top-pasteurizing-pics-193295/

Just one more thing and ill stop posting too,CidahMastah you said: "Probably the only issue you would have would be excessive consumption over years, leading to a problem" I don't think this is true because methanol just like any alcohol is not accumulated in the body so it doesn't build up...

Sorry if I came on too strong I was just sure freeze concentration is done after and not before fermentation,oh and you're right "What a man does in his own back yard is his business". And only by experimenting can we learn more things about what we don't understand, and if someone gets sick or...

oh an about "Too bad Denver is a STATE government. FEDERAL government presides, thus..... felony" until I hear about the ATF busting someone for brewing applejack or ice beer I'll consider it legal like so many do,no still no conviction, after all this isn't 100 proof moonshine it's just good...

Like you're some sort of biochemist and know every thing there is to know about fermentation when you make beer or wine,I never pretended to be an expert but you don't have to fully understand the process to do it. And actually according to wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_beer) "The...

no precedent means nobody has ever been arrested for having ice beer or applejack no matter the ABV, plus what if i mix some beer & strong spirit(store bought) to get a 40%ABV ice beer, because its over 24% is the ATF gonna say its not beer? or what if I have a super mutant yeast that can...

or a home AppleJack:tank::rockin: P.S. I hate how the legal dispute gets brought up every time this comes up. If it were illegal, it would be pretty hard to bust. You could just say you accidentally forgot to put the temp controller back on the freezer. Plenty of people use chest freezers as...

yep like I said fusels are heavier alcohols than ethanol as opposed to the lighter methanol so they are completely different,and like discussed in these threads: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/freeze-distillation-104882/ https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/applejack-attack-210972/ it is...

actually freeze concentration or making a really strong wine or beer is completely legal,there is no legal ABV limit,that would be stupid, distilling with a still is illegal.

about the blindness issue, methanol which is a lighter alcohol than ethanol causes blindness and I also thought that fusels are is such a small concentration that all they ever cause is a bad hangover(nasty throbbing headache)

just search "homebrew books" on thepiratebay there is a whole collection of useful books, I also recommend The Complete Joy of Home Brewing by Charles Papazian.

chill man all I was saying is that if you know how to make a good wine you wont have a lot of fusels to begin with and if you double the alcohol from 15 to 30%ABV you should be ok. And for the legal matter what I do with my wine and my freezer is my own Goddamn business and I believe this has...

well about the fusels,you are just concentrating the alcohol not making more of it,so if you drink the same amount of alcohol as you would from wine you should be ok. Plus a few months ago me and my friend drank a bottle of his Apple Jack(about 25-30%ABV) and we just got drunk,really drunk but...