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I have tasted some now and it seems extremely strong and dry. The dry i was expecting while the potency not as much. The yeast attenuated super well and the wine turned out like a light liquor haha I'd rather have something more subtle. But either way it's been a good learning experience!

Well I just bottled and it tastes great already without carbing! I thought the efficiency was really high as well and I imagine as everyone has pointed out that it wasn't throughly "blended" with the top up giving me an off reading. Either way, I really appreciate the info and compliments...

Yeah that's throwing some heat for sure! What is that piece that's glowing?

So I went to my LHBS and found a recipe for an "Irish Red" named Red Rocket. I'm not sure if it's a clone of the Bear Republic version but either way I had them scale it down to a 3 gallon AG version since i brew on my stovetop. I'm using a 4-5 gallon kettle on the stove (gas) so I wasn't sure...

I brew during NFL games because I'm not as tied into the league (barring fantasy football). On Saturday's I don't brew because I have to watch my Gators beat up the SEC East ;)

Yeah even after I've racked it's still cloudy and dropping sediment. Still happy to get my first wine in though! It's surprisingly simple from ingredients to fermenter.

Just started a 1 gallon batch of Peach wine from Trader Joe's "Dixie Peach" juice concentrate! I added 3 cups of sugar to reach an appropriate SG and added it in with the juice. I chose to use Montrachet yeast and within about 4 hours, she started bubbling away! To my surprise, Trader Joe's has...

Just stopping in to see the comments. I'm about to fill up a few 1 gallon batches as well so I might try some new recipes!

Good luck! I'm from Florida so unless you want a muscadine recipe, I can't help you haha

Bought a new kettle and has set up to slowly upgrade my brew.

21,137.5 gallons + 5.5 gallons pale ale = 21,143 gallons

5.5 gallons of a super hoppy APA. Looks like brackish water and smells delightful :)

Brewed a nice smelling American pale ale today and loaded it with citra. So much my local home brew guy gave me the look like, "are you sure this is what you want?" Haha

haha me too... this is the reason we have a search bar. for people like us :fro:

I have better results will free hops rather than in a bag. I've never had issues racking into my bottling container with trub or hops except for 1 occasion and I just rubber banded a coffee filter around the tip of my racking cane. I also use a large sum of hops at flameout to get that desired...