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  1. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I want to thank you again i have been looking around 4 some juice to buy at the store with no preservatives. But I cannot find any everything seems to have preservatives. Do you have any suggestions? What about frozen concentrate juice Thank you for your insight i will have to looking frozen...
  2. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I want to thank you again i have been looking around 4 some juice to buy at the store with no preservatives. But I cannot find any everything seems to have preservatives. Do you have any suggestions? What about frozen concentrate juice
  3. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Thank you for your help. I am currently looking for some apple juice without preservatives. But I cannot find any juice that does not have preservatives in it. And as you said, I should leave some headspace, I was thinking the same myself, so if I find some juice going to do 12 gallons juice...
  4. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I do not use Turbo yeast, and I have some wine yeast. Ec 1118 i have tried this with a sugar wash, but that was before I had a specific gravity hydrometer. I believe I was running it too soon and not giving it time to work off. Still learning so I am taking all the knowledge that people are...
  5. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I have a proofing hydrometer, and a specific gravity hydrometer. This was my first attempt at fruit mash. Thanks to some of the comments that I have received, I learned fruit is mostly water. And not a whole lot of sugar, so that is something I am going to work on. Thank you for the advice. As...
  6. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I was looking into that DAP but I read some unfavorable things about it saying if you use too much.It is not good for consumption
  7. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Yes, I am using a floating hydrometer. I did add a rehydrated yeast yesterday to see if I can kick it off
  8. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I used red star distillers yeast from the information I was able to find on it said it had a 20% abv capability
  9. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Thank you for the information, and yes, I forgot in my last post to let you know that I did boil some yeast and add it to my fermenter.Before pitching my yeast i add a 1/2 cup boiled yeast with a half cup of rehydrated yeast i am going to just wait a couple more days and see what happens thank...
  10. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I i actually just did a sugar wash. I am still looking for some beer recipes. I am interested in mashing. So I started with 25 pounds of sugar, 15 gallons of water pitched my distiller's yeast at 95°. I check my sg for my fermenting at 7 days it it 9 days in now and sg has not dropped below 1.020
  11. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Hello there again I have a question for you about stalled fermentation I had a starting sg of 1.090 and in 7 days my finished sg was 1.020 can I do another starter yeast to get down to 1.000 or lower or should I just run it
  12. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Thank you
  13. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I had a question for you so I have been looking up some beer recipes and found some i would like to try but you were saying wine and distillers yeast have a higher alcohol capability but the recipes I found call for a ale yeast should I follow the recipe, or would it be better to use a distiller...
  14. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I have looked online and on YouTube. Get some basic information but most of them. One do not let you know what type of yeast they are using and also are not very specific on amounts of ingredients more.You just say a specific type of fruit. sugar and just say yeast so all your help with...
  15. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Thank you for the information. I have been looking up some beer recipes without hops. I do have a hydrometer, but it is just for checking proof not specific gravity.I need to buy one
  16. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I don't know all the questions to ask. But definitely could use any information that may be helpful to me. Something on different yeasts. Maybe where I can find some tried and true mash bills. Any help I can get would be appreciated like I begin. I am new to the craft and really would like to...
  17. wegleston

    Newbe here

    Yes, I got. The elevation for my home off Google Maps I looked at your chart. I am way off as far as boiling point for water when I am running my mash. With me running my mash to 210 I am getting a lot of water but not only that I am starting to cool my papers way late as well my thermometer...
  18. wegleston

    Newbe here

    So my elevation at my place is 2344.2 feet. And thank for the information. So my water temp at my elevation would be somewhere about 200° is that corret
  19. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I will look into it. My is the elevation important can you explain
  20. wegleston

    Newbe here

    I am mashing in fruit 15 gallons fermenter no thumper thank you for the website I will check it out
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