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I have to hand it to cvstrat, if it weren't for his ability to keep me motivated, I'm not sure I could have hung with him for 14 hours of no-down-time brewing. We were bounce batching every one of them and only had our typical hour long sparge break for the first batch and a few minutes of boil...

It's been two weeks and both batches are still bubbling right along. There must be an absurd amount of sugar. Although they have slowed considerably, they are still fizzing away. Haha. What have I done? They are gonna be so alcoholic that no one's gonna want anything to do with them... or...

It's been one week almost to the minute and both vessels are still bubbling away, the 5g batch of (what I'm now calling) ExorCyser was smelling quite pungent at first but even in just a week it has "exorcised" whatever awful notes were coming out of the main bulk of fermentation and mellowed out...

Thanks for the advice Emerald. When you added your acid blend was that DURING fermentation?

What I had done in the past is simply age in primary for 4 months and then take a sample... If it plays, it goes to bottle and then conditions (some with carbonation, some without) for another month or so. I'm toying with the idea of racking to secondary, but honestly,I've never seen a need...

Hi guys and gals, Just pitched some Montrachet on top of two brainstorms I had recently. First up is a one gallon jug of (roughly) 1/3 organic White Grape Juice, 1/3 organic (concord???) Grape and 1/3 organic unpasteurized Apple juice with just a very slight splash of pure Pomegranate...

I've seen a couple pictures of a makeshift plywood shelf that sits over the refridgeration unit (at the bottom rear of the interior) for the CO2 tank to rest on. I'm not on location and don't have access to the actual dimensions of said shelf. It appears to run full width and rest where the...

I must say that as an employee at a fine woodworking shop, a dabbler in electronics and a huge fan of brewing, that this may take the cake for the coolest DIY project to ever run across my screen. I can tell by your "I didn't really know if this thing was gonna work" mentality that we at least...

Wow, Those are exactly the opinions I was needing/looking for. Thank you all so much for your input and time. My goal is to learn as much as humanly possible about the two serperate methods and make a decision therein. So integrity seems to be a split opinion, which in my eyes...

Ok, After briefly reading over some very generalized info on the net, I figured that there is a decision to make. Is it true that the whole grain process has a more genuine representation of the flavors? Are there ANY homebrewer's that PREFER the finished product of an extract...

I currently live in Spotsylvania... Tucked about halfway between Richmond and Fredericksburg on the 95 corridor... Thanks for the warm welcome... - Jacob

Hi folks, I'm so excited to be a part of your forum. Don't let the name fool you, I'm a really laid back back guy... That's a longstanding joke of a forum handle that stuck a long time ago...lol. I recently had the pleasure to eseentially get a quick crash course in homebrewing...