Recent content by NineMilBill

Welcome from Tacoma

I didn't use organic, just fresh blackberries.

Yes, the cup of sugar provided the carbonation. IIRC, it took about 5 or so days to carb up.

On page one of the Favorite lyric from a song thread - I have DAC listed.

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Jeep chief

Nope - they were sitting on the kitchen floor, and I turned around to do something in the sink - heard the pop, and it was over - wine all over the floor.

No, in fact, EdWort himself said to only let it sit in the primary for 3 months max. You can bulk age in secondary - but get it off the primary yeast cake.

591 Was shaking it dry from the skinny end. The heavy end didn't like that too much.

Some people are even proponents of adding all of the extract after the boil. The 60 minute boil is for hops utilization - not to ensure the extract is 'more' dissolved. The yeast will find the sugar.

Cord Keeper

I'm getting broken links for your pics. Edit: Yep, Working now - nice project!

As I'm envisioning this happening, it's not the way I would go about it. I would use fresh, split cloves and likely wouldn't bother with the grain bag or filtering technique.

Threesome rules

Bottled two gallons of wine. One of my 750ml's bombed (clean split along bottom rim) shortly after corking. Really didn't think this batch needed a decant with all the racking I did. These were recycling center bottles, so their strength is probably a tad diminished anyway. No biggie - puts me...