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Just an update: I started two batches on the 23rd (three if you count the experimental gallon with bread yeast), and for the last couple of days, you can actually hear the tiny bubbles! I'm having SO much fun.....

Ok....I just started 2 4-gallon carboys of apfelwein, and one gallon using bread yeast, just as an experiment. Also 3 gallons of hillbilly wine, and 1 of cranberry. Now I need to brew some gingerale for the apfelwein. The one empty carboy I have left may soon be filled with either Joe's...

I got the slight rubbery taste as well; I just assumed that it was the stopper. I pour some off (plastic carboy, so I can do that) into a glass container, usually a mason jar. After a day or so there's no more rubbery taste, and I don't have to mess with bottling, since this is my first foray...

My son will be turning 21 in March, and was very interested in attempting to brew mead. I thought it would be fun to make some for his first (legal) drink. I started some mead, some beer, and then I found this thread. I've never brewed anything but tea prior to this month. I started my first...