Recent content by Bob_McBob

Taprite fit their regulators with a shut-off valve that incorporates a ball check valve, so I'm not too worried about liquid entering the regulator. I see your point about the bottle and hose becoming a single unit. I think a lot of my problem is because of shaking the bottle more than...

Again I'm confused because I can't find a single example of someone not shaking while carbing bottles this way, so it seems like nobody is using their system with "proper care". Basically every video and instruction says to shake the bottle vigorously for 30 seconds, some even upside down. Are...

The place I got the kit from sells the CM Becker check valve disconnect, so that is certainly an option. I'm just a little confused because I've seen hundreds of these carb setups online and none of them use a check valve on the disconnect, but nobody seems to be reporting water backing up into...

I have this water carbonation setup which uses a carb cap and ball lock fitting on the end of the hose. I'm finding every time I carb a bottle of water, I end up with liquid trapped inside the hose, which sprays out if I manually open the disconnect. Is this normal? If not, any idea what's going...

Any thoughts on why my first two batches ended up looking so different? On the left is jasmine rice, fermented 17 days, pasteurized and then cold crashed. On the right is glutinous rice, fermented 27 days, cold crashed, racked off, and then pasteurized. Both batches were stirred frequently...

For Shaoxing wine specifically, here's a description of manufacturing the most popular variety based on the Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering. Glutinous rice is soaked for 18-20 hours in slightly acidified water before steaming. Large cisterns are filled with 144 kg of...

I've skimmed through the thread a few times in the past and decided this weekend was the time to try it out for myself. I have two 1 quart mason jars going with 2 cups (Japanese, ~180ml) each of jasmine rice cooked in a rice cooker, and one ground up ball each of yeast. I put one in the oven...