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It works better for me.. in that I always heard it said, "Bring your own Beer!" :D Keep it the way you like. 'Sall yours. :D

Your signature? I've never brewed a bottle before.. I just brew brews. :D

Since I started making these wines while traveling with my family to find picking work (my dad's been at it seasonally for over 30 years) there's been a running joke in the family. Dad makes jam.. and I make wine. Guess which is the more popular? :D Even if he gives me grief for being a "wino"...

I've made fruit "ripple" wines with added sugar out of nearly every kind of fruit, excepting oranges. Grapes, Cherries (White and Black), Apples, Pears, Apricot, Peach, Cactus Fruit Mead with Lime and Ginger, Plum, and now lovingly brewing a 3-gallon batch of Honduran "Wado" (Pineapple) with...

Well, I'm another guy. But technically, I'm closer to the mark.. I have an extra X sex chromosome. XXY. I represent both sides! (Though I have the guy parts, not the girls' :P ) Just as many X's as you have, just as many Y's as they. Hope you're brewing well! ~BV

I tasted the mash that had congealed in the cooking pot after posting this.. it tasted pretty dang good. I have even higher hopes now for this brew! You might wonder why I only put 4 lbs of sugar for 4 gallons of wine? Its because I know bananas (especially organic ones) are packed full of...

A ladies rule, hit 40 then start counting backwards. A mans? Hit 50. Sorry for not rhyming.. I've even missed the timing. :D How bout a joke? A Roman walked into a tavern, held up two fingers and said, "I'll have five beers, please."

"I like to drink, drink, drink Ipples and Bininis!".. I hope :) Making 4 gallons of a "kitchen sink" ripple wine now with peeled bananas and chunked up apples, as well as some other ingredients. This is fully an experiment, using pretty much everything that I had available to do an admittedly...

I started selling organic tree fruits at Farmers' Markets in California when I was 14 years old. At the end of each market we'd have what we'd call Juice Boxes of damaged fruit, or fruit that was so ripe (like stone fruits) that they wouldn't survive the return trip home from the market. So we'd...

Of course I would forget to mention the yeast. :D I used bread yeast this time since there's no local brewer's hobbyshop and I was eager to get my batch underway as soon as I moved out here. So since I'd always heard that only the flavour would differ in using bread yeast for winemaking, that's...

Washington state, currently, but I'm always going out to freelance work here there and everywhere. This is the first winter in ages I haven't escaped to California or Mexico, but times are bleaker than the weather and I'm just trying to stay happy with my home wines instead of spending money I...

As the title says. I think I used to be a member of the forum.. or some forum similar, but that was years ago. Seems very familiar. But anyway, I was looking for any mention of Banana Wine on Google this evening and got directed to someone's post. I always have words to type for some reason...

Try the vinegar.. or google home solutions to the problem if you like. Another place to check would be ThriftyFun(dot)com where the old wives of this computer age post their "Farmer's Almanac"-type solutions to problems. Farmer's Almanac is another great resource.. You're sure to find the...

Rub white vinegar diluted in a 5-10 parts water to 1 part vinegar solution all over the surfaces. That'll dissuade any bugs from returning and actually is a great home cleaner in general. Granted, it'll smell of vinegar for a bit, but its worth it. Your fiance shouldn't kill you for your...

Don't want to give the wrong impression. I definitely use glass when available, but as I'm also young and like to experiment (and love to share!) I don't always take the best care of my finished wines. I do like to save a sampler few bottles out of each batch to keep for a good while, but most...

That's partially why I like the bag-in-bucket method. It doesn't take much to take the bucket by the handle, and while holding the top of the bag, swirl and shake the bucket as you would mixing a bucket of paint. Can't do that with an airlock in the top. I find its much easier and less...

I have a bunch of half-eaten bananas I've frozen because my two toddler nephews only eat about half of one and won't take a half-banana to begin. So though I know its frugal with the price of bananas, I think I may have about 5-6 lbs of peeled banana fragments in the freezer. I've been home...