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The backround...I made a few batches of various types of ciders ( brown sugar, honey, ect) the long and short is they never carbed up. there a couple yrs old. I pull out a couple from time to time but I think they would be better bubbly. .could I try and keg them or would all that pouring cause...

they're grape color:D redish i guess. so i smash a couple pounds then pour the juice mixed with a tab and wait a day or 2 then pitch my yeast? or is there another way? i'm making 5 gal batches and separating 1 gallon off that to put on the grapes.

i would love one of these due to the fact that if i get spayed in face with yeast and chunks from taking that damned brush out of the carboy again i don't know what i'm gonna do!

I'm going to start another batch of apfel and i got a grocery bag full of grapes from my buddy's back yard. not sure what kind they are but they're tasty little buggers. not sure how much to put in a gallon jar with the cider? 1#? 2#? does anyone have a good starting point? they're frozen now so...

so i can spend more time brewing!

sign me up!!

should be fine. make a starter with the vial and put some more in there for next time.thats what i do when practical.

last year i got 1-3/4 pounds wet off my 1st yr cascade turned out to 7-1/4 oz dried. this year it should triple.

i cut a couple of keg lids off w/the HF air grinder, use the back of the grinder and trace around the coupler for a guide cuts a perfect hole no need for a jig. wear your safety gear!

mine spewed out a gallon give or take. a foamy gallon takes up more space than one would think lemme tell ya.

ya i over-looked the warning part, my bad, a rookie mistake and i paid for it:o things will be sticky for a while

no love here either, i caught 6 of them and am watchin them grow but not on my hops! those critters can eat a good sized leaf in a couple hrs, it wouldn't take them long to destroy the plant.

either i missed it or something but i was not thinking of the outcome but in my attempt to degas and add nutrient to my mead resulted in a giant soaking honey volcano:eek: didn't really think about what happens when you agitate CO2, well it shoots through the carboy neck with some serious...

i have those caterpillars too and from what i found out there are Question Mark caterpillars. whose diet includes hops and other trees