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I've lived here for about 25 years now, and deer have been the bane of my existence in the summer. They do the "graze through", mindlessly cropping down my garden, and I've resorted to everything short of tall fences. My favorite was a cannot I once built that ran on bullseye powder, with an...

I'm making 2 gallons of rhubarb wine, or more accurately strawberry rhubarb wine for a friend. The basic rhubarb wine recipes call for about 3 lbs rhubarb and 3 pounds sugar per gallon, which works out to about 24% (roughly off the top of my head) potential alcohol. You ferment to 12%...

My two rhizomes were absolutely dead. They had no life at all and refused to sprout...(in soil) ......There is always next year.

Just an update. I've logged 111 total fasting days, mostly 3 to 4 day fasts, all water fasts I'm down to my first target, 50 lbs down, with 7 pounds to my ultimate target, which I'm pursuing at a more leisurely pace. I've wrestled my way through several plateaus, and learned quite a few...

Pardon the tardy reply. I haven't been on in awhile. Several years ago I made a kombucha / beer using a unique process where I brewed a gallon of unhopped beer alongside a gallon of kombucha. When the kombucha was properly soured, I drew off a quart and added a quart of still fermenting...

I finally got my two Columbus rhizomes yesterday.....now I have to figure out how to do this..... For the moment they are in a plastic container in soil on a seedling mat until they develop some growth.... Once I get some roots I'll knock the soil off the roots, and lay them in my net pots with...

I baked them on the rack... no foil. I just finished a second batch... all sous vide, that I will run through my Omega auger juicer to produce a peanut butter consistency paste that I will spread on dehydrator sheets to make chips..... nothing will be added except for lightly salting the...

My GF loves sweet potatoes baked in the hide like an ordinary potato. I find them less than exciting, and decided to employ brewing technology in preparing them the other day. Using the sous vide, I dropped several into 135F for an hour, then raised it to 145 for couple of hours, then 150...

I'm using invert sugar syrup in kombucha making to accelerate fermentation..... It does actually help. Normally making invert sugar syrup is a messy process involving putting sugar and some water in a pan and adding an acid.... usually citric acid or cream of tarter, then cooking it using a...

While I've quit brewing for health reasons, I am still using brewing technology in various ways. For example, I am currently doing a starch to sugar conversion in sweet potatoes. This is something I did in a couple of beers, but I lacked the equipment I now have. My process uses the sous...

Just an update..... I'm down to 160 lbs (approx, as I'm fasting enough that it's difficult to know what my "stable" weight is) now from a beginning weight of 202. I'm on fasting day 78 out of a total of 109 days since I began my "program". Blood pressure is no longer a concern, as I'm...

There are a significant number of articles on the net about growing hops hydroponically, but they are all oriented toward indoor and greenhouse growing, and are also oriented toward conventional hydroponics. Though I'm no longer brewing and only drinking about one beer a week, I was...

Apple Cider Vinegar obviously gets it's benefits entirely from the single acid (acetic), and the probiotics.... only yeast and acetobacter. It's a live culture, and that is the main difference between it and ordinary white vinegar. The apple cider it originates from has minimal health...

This product keeps improving....I'm very happy with it. Considering shifting to a continuous brew as I do with kombucha.

For those interested in Apple Cider Vinegar.....which is reputed to be good for you, I am making ACV using Belle Saison for a few days followed by pitching kombucha into it. The result looks like it will be phenomenal. It quickly developed a scoby, and is rapidly souring, and the flavor...

I've passed the half way point now. I'm on day 60 of fasting .......61 days of fasting out of 80 total days.... That is about 76% of the days since early Dec spent fasting. I'm currently half way through day four of a four day fast. Weight this AM was 166 lbs, down from 202 when I...

Things are headed in the right direction........ I've lost 27 pounds in 57 days of water fasting over a period of 72 days. My blood pressure has dropped from close to 200 (systolic) down to 132 / 89 ..... right about where it should be. I'm feeling better than I have in years, and the flab...

Here is a photo of my "Krausby"..... it is a krausen and scoby all rolled into one. The aggressive fermentation prevents the typical gelatinous scoby from forming as you can see. Note that I added more frozen concentrate, making this double strength (flavor). Flavor is currently...

This has a way to go.... vinegar is the final objective A number of years ago I made an unhopped beer, and kombucha side by side and blended them. I began by drawing 25% of the kombucha off. I then replaced it with that much beer, then a week later repeated the process, and kept this up...

One of my projects is making apple cider vinegar using kombucha instead of starting with Braggs. The reason for this is that vinegar normally has a single organism.... one variety of acetobacter. It has a far less complex flavor than kombucha, or even kombucha vinegar. In my previous...