Recent content by keheal

I finished brewing a white zin a few weeks ago and have decided to brew a hard cider next. I've never done a cider so this forum has been helpful (and sometimes humurous). If anyone has any tips for a first time cider brewer please feel free to post them! I'm still deciding on a recipe...

Dow Diamond, home to my town's minor league baseball team the Great Lake Loons. The Loons are only in their second season and the ballpark was brand new last year and it's beautiful! Fireplaces/-pits, huge video scoreboard, etc. etc. Awesome venue for baseball and the beer is reasonably...

The food was very, very good. I had the jumbalaya and it was excellent. Of course, anyone from 'Nawlins would probably disagree, but again - we're from MI. :p The beer list is actually online too, check out the link below: http://www.strangebrewtavern.net/SBT/Beers.html There's something...

This is a fun forum!! My wife and I went to the Eastern Seaboard last fall for a friend's wedding. We're from Michigan and had never been there. We stayed near our friends' hometown in Manchester, NH. (The wedding was in Nahant, Mass - beautiful setting!) Anyhow, we get into Manchester on...

SWMBO has suggested that instead of a white wine next that I give the apfelwein recipe a try. . . I can't believe she didn't just complain about the fermenter in the closet for the last 2.5 mos!!

I haven't posted in a few weeks, as wine making gets pretty boring there for a while ;) I have been browsing and reading the forum pretty consistently though. I thought I'd fill you all in, I bottled my first ever batch of wine and it came out beautifully! I tasted it prior to bottling to...

I have no "f kit" so I'll have to figure something out. What does the potassium meta do for the wine then? Is it a clearing agent? I'll have to find some potassium sorbate. Thanks Again everyone!!

I have an ECKraus White Zin kit, 6 gals. I appreciate all the helpful advice! I've been really apprehensive about this part because I don't want to spend all this time making a wine that I won't drink. Your helpfullness has alleviated many of those fears and I am excited about trying it out!

Hello again, everyone! I tried doing a forum search on this first and all I found were beer links so I decided to post something here in the wine forum. Here goes: I'm brewing my first batch of wine, from a kit, and am getting near to bottling. The last time I racked, I took a hydrometer...

Oooh. Kiwi Watermelon wine. That sounds really good! I'm just aging my first batch of wine and I've already got several "next" batches I wanna try and I think I'm gonna add this one to the list!

I've been brewing a kit of White Zin from ECKraus and everything, so far, has gone by the book. I did my second racking tonight after 25 days. The initial fermentation went great, lots of activity from days 2 through 7. On day 7 I racked and put the wine under an air lock. I kept an eye on...

I have to believe that any brew tastes better in Honolulu. Here in Sanford, MI it's a balmy 24 degrees - I'll take 75 degrees any day!

Thanks, a little sigh of relief ;0

I'm new to the forum and new to home brewing. I've enjoyed all of it so far and can see myself enjoying this hobby for some time to come. I apologize to anyone who's seen this question asked before, but I couldn't find it in the forums. I did the first racking on some White Zin that I'm...