Recent content by afsee

The view ports would definitely help. I think they would have to be fairly large to let enough light through. Probably in two lines of glass running the entire length 180 degrees apart. Should be easier to construct than the glass also.

Hello dead thread. A year after all of this and I'm just wondering if anything ever got made, quoted for production, or even sketched. I think the demijohn idea would work with different fittings to accommodate the larger opening. But it's a tad too big and I don't see similarly shaped...

My banana juice turned pink after boiling it for a while. Its only a couple months since fermentation but it really reeks of banana. All i used were ripe bananas and water.

Thanks, I'll have to try the nutrient. Even though Turbo yeast already has nutrient in it, it sounds like it should work. I kept it at around room temp ~70 degrees F. I didn't prepare the yeast. But i haven't needed to since i got the turbo - I've gotten cider up to 14% already, my most...

I just did some apple juice that listed the only additive as ascorbic acid. Here is what I got: I added sugar to get the SG to 1.168 (just to see what turbo yeast could tolerate) 9 days later i measured the SG at 1.143 day 13 --------------------------1.130 Then it stopped for about another 2...