Recent content by FranciscoDancon

Hey Ladies and Gents! It has been a long time since I posted here, because, well, my life is CHAOTIC. So, I started my first ever batch of Edwort's Apfelwein, and then, due to circumstances beyond my control, wound up moving to Puerto Rico on three day's notice. Just came back to visit my...

I don't contact the FDA about their decisions because I refuse to recognize the morality of their authority. It doesn't matter whether a product is harmful or not, they have no moral right to ban it. Whether I drink four loko is no concern of their's, it is my concern and mine alone. Just...

It is not immediately clear to me that the FDA actually has the authority to make this rule. I suspect there will be a lot of litigation on this issue and you never really know how the courts are going to rule. Of course, that side-steps the moral issue. People have a moral right to consume...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I am kind of new to brewing, so I hope that you will excuse me if this is a horribly stupid idea. But I hope that it isn't a stupid idea, and instead that it is a good idea. So here it is: We all know about the horrible rot-gut swill that comes out of...

I am fairly new to homebrewing, but I had an idea. My family buys lots of deer apples to feed our horses and other pets during the winter. They are great, and the farmer we get them from makes cider. I've already bought some cider from hiim and it is bubbling away in the air lock, but I was...

Oh wow, well I don't want to spend that kind of money on bottles! Thanks for the info though :-)

I'd like to give some gifts this christmas for some of my homebrew, and I'd like to do it with very large bottles. I have seen both wine and champagne sold in exceptionally large bottles and it is really cool. I've been looking around but have yet to find a source for the bottles themselves...