Recent content by afoster

Thanks for the help guys. I have a bunch of marbles so Ill just do that. Thanks

I brewed a five gallon batch of smoked porter and I just transferred it into the secondary tonight. There is quite a bit of head space in the secondary and I'm wondering if I could take my vacuum sealer and suck all the O2 out and capping it with an air lock. Would this work or should I find a...

Im going to start a batch of peach wine. These will be freshly picked peaches from the trees behind my parents house. Looking for a semi sweet wine with an ABV around 12%. What would be a good yeast to use? Ive used Lalvin EC-1118 for most of my wines and this yeast has produced great wine so I...

Thanks Yooper that is exactly all the information I needed.

I have 10 gallons of Tart cherry wine that has been in the carboy for 7 months now. Now I'm going to stabilize it with the sorbate and metabisulphite. My question is should I let this stabilize for a couple days before I start to backsweeten the wine to taste? Or can I stabilize, sweeten, and...

Soaked my bottles in a star san solution and the bottles look like new again. Thanks for all the advice guys.

Thanks everyone for the help. Ill be doing this to my bottles soon.

City water so I would assume that my water is pretty hard. Seems to do this to dishes as well after the wash is done. Would I just soak the bottles in CLR to remove the hard water stains?

Ive recently been collecting wine bottles for my home made wine that is in the carboys now. I finally have enough bottles to start bottling and I wanted to remove all the labels. I did some research and soaked them in the tube with water and oxy clean over night. The labels came off fine for the...

Had my first bottle bomb ever. Tried my cider and its way to carbonated and dry. I back sweetened before bottling but I have been really busy and didnt have time to pasturize on the stove. Could I back sweeten again and pasturize right after I bottle and cut back the carbonation? This seems like...

I have 50lbs of tart cherries and would love to make cherry wine. Is there a really good recipe that people have tried and liked? Thanks Andy

I let me beer ferment for a week and then I transfer it into a secondary for about a week. I transfer my beer to my bottling bucket and add my priming sugar for carbonation. After sitting in the bottle for 3 months I end up with lots of sediment or trub at the bottom of my bottles. Is there...

I used Safale US-05 and got my FG reading at .098 then I back sweetened it and my SG reading was 1.005 and then I bottled it. No priming sugar at all and it had a pretty sweet taste to it but it wasnt over kill. Going to check in the next few days to check carbination and then when I think its...

If I decide to back sweeten my cider with apple juice concentrate, do I need to add priming sugar also to get carbination in the bottles? or will the sugar in the concentrate be enough to get carbination? I plan on stove top pasturizing when I get the proper carbination I want. Thanks Andy

I got this from one of SlipGates posts here is the recipe. Blue Moon Clone Extract Recipe 5 gallon batch 6.6 pounds of Coopers Wheat liquid Malt Extract (any light wheat extract will do) 2 pound of Light Wheat specialty grains in muslin bag 1 pound of corn sugar (or light DME) 1...