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Quick question. I have not seen anyone wire an STC with just the male and female ends of a cord (which is what I'm doing) I have a dead mini fridge so cooling is not going to be hooked up at the moment. After cutting the female end off my extension cord, I plan on wiring that directly into the...

So I am building a fermentation chamber out of a dead mini-fridge. My garage stays a constant 55 degrees right now in the winter so I don't need to worry about cooling. I was planning on buying a brewbelt to heat my carboy but then I got to thinking... Would a brewbelt be able to heat...

I plan on doing that for now. My garage stays around 55 degrees so I wont be cooling, just heating my carboy inside a dead minifridge.

Anyone just use the female end of the extension cord for the heat outlet?

doesn't look bad? what does it taste like?

My wife and I are dry wine fans so if this turns out to be awesome you better post the recipe!

you may want to wait and see exactly how it turns out then back sweeten it. I would not reccomend diluting with water, but than again I have never done it. You could dilute more honey in some water and add that, depending on how much your yeast will ferment out, it could end up on the...

Any reason you guys like adding vanilla to the secondary instead of primary? Just curious.

Many people have used extract. I personally have yet to use it. Have a blueberry vanilla going right now, used 2 whole beans split and scraped. Go into the recipe section on mead and you will find plenty of recipes that use extract.

I have a blueberry vanilla mead going right now. Based off the JOAM recipe. Hope it turns out good.

Anchorage huh? Maybe we could arrange a mead swap sometime, I have a blueberry vanilla and a JOAM going right now, wont be done for a little while though. anyways this sounds like a great recipe, may have to give it a try soon.

Glad I came across this. I just made a 1g batch of blueberry vanilla. Really didnt think anything of it and added 2 vanilla beans, scraped and chopped in half. For some reason I just thought about it and needed some reasurance that I didnt add to much vanilla lol. Will be making this...

not that its quite "BULK" but I bought some honey from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001E5DZRU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 $17.35 for 6lbs, and free super saver shipping. Less that 3 bucks a pound! thats a pretty good deal.

first off, how long was your primary? If it was "fizzing" chances are that it was still fermenting. Did you take any hydometer readings?

I just googled "Lalvin 71b-1122" seems people were having trouble with slow fermentation at lower pH levels. Every yeast has its desired temp,ph,etc. Might just take that batch longer. Also, that batch was 3gal not 1 gal.

Dont overthink this. That ammount of oxygen is meaningless...

I have to talk myself out of buying more things than I really need..... ONLY because money is tight right now. If I had the money it would be going into more homebrew equipment.

Yup, it will lighten the body a bit..... really dont know why he reccomended that for a "change" probably just for the abv

well you said you added a pound of sugar to that first batch. Did you add anything to the others?

Just in reading this thread alone, I know why I never want a glass carboy.