Recent content by area_man

I don't like beer all that much. I seem to fill up on 1-2 beers and just feel like a walrus after that. Cider, wine, mixed drinks, etc. don't seem to have that effect on me. I like the taste of beer. Craft beers especially. I just don't care for the feeling that goes along with it. I'm...

This time I'm upping the ante a little. 8 gallons of Tree Top apple juice in one-gallon jugs from my local Winco 10 cans of concentrate from the same supplier. Each can is 16oz, so the total volume of the concentrate is 160oz. One gallon plus a quart, so we're at 9 gallons and a quart...

Well due to the overwhelming response to this thread I felt obliged to reply to the many questions. First, I siphoned a gallon off the top to "sample" a little of my creation. First impression is SOUR. I've had sour stuff before, but that was usually a component of it being...

I've been doing one gallon experiments for a while to see what I like and what I don't. So far I've learned to use a very small amount of spice for just about anything or it gets really overpowering and unpleasant and winds up down the drain. This time I tried a recipe that a friend of mine...

Any of you guys use a food processor for grinding the daylights out of raisins and cranberries? Would you grind those two ingredients, add honey, rip it around again, boil for a minute or two and let cool, and then pour that into your secondary and rack onto that? I don't know why, it...