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Yes I do! Now that it's legal here, there's a LHBS opening up literally 4 miles from my house on SATURDAY, I've put off buying new fermenters, lids and airlocks for almost 3 months just so I can be there on opening day and buy them from the local guy. Just hope his markup isn't so bad that I...

Man I make 5 gallons of this stuff every couple weeks, trying to get a pipeline going so it can actually age some. Around here it gets aged in weeks, not months, I don't even know how good it is when aged cause the old lady likes it so much sweetened and carbonated at any age.

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You should be fine, it will have a little less alcohol and perhaps a bit less "body" than with more DME but I'll bet ya it will be a quite drinkable brew and you'll be happy with it.

Hmm I seem to remember it had me stir briskly I assumed that'd aerate it? So what's degassing exactly?

I am ready to bottle, should I simply rerack and put in some clarifier (I have a packet of that chitin stuff) and bottle after a day or two, or should I do more? I remember on my last wine kit it actually had me aerate the wine during the end which seems counter to everything I've learned...

Honestly for the cost, a 5 gallon batch is about the same price as a Mr Beer batch when you buy those Mr Beer kits :)

Well, if you don't see any mold I wouldn't sweat it.

Racked my wine to a secondary, added my peach juice (finally found it) and some oak chips. Took a test glass just now and hell, this is good damned wine. Little bit acidic in the bite but it's quite drinkable I'd say. Gonna get a small glass again in a week and see if my oak chips impart any...

No doubt this is probably the case, my latest batch of apfelwein has an sg of 1.111 so it should be quite rude when it's done fermenting.

FFF haha 190, what a ******. Anyway he sounds like the type to rat you out to the fuzz if he ever gets wind that it's (technically) illegal.

The big problem is when the moonshiner doesn't mix all his runnings together, if you simply set out 50 1 gallon jugs, jug #1 could be dangerous, but if you mix them into a 50 gallon drum then dispense 50 1 gallon jugs from that, the bad stuff is diluted to the point of non-lethal levels. Also...

Hmm I don't remember exactly but it was at least several weeks, they've been in the freezer in a zip loc baggy for at least a year now. I can get some fresh chips at the the LHSB I mean they're not exactly an expensive item to go cheap on or anything :)

Stupidest thing said about distillation also (sorry had to throw that out there) most of the deaths/blindness is not the shine itself as much as it is the silly crap people have used to cook the shine IN, car radiators/etc or added to the shine later to fool people into thinking it's stronger...

Vigorous indeed, SG today is .996 and I'm no sommelier but I think it's fairly acidic. Not undrinkable, hell I'm polishing off the test tube I took for testing with out any real scrunchy faces being made. Guess I'll rack to secondary in the next few days on top of this handful of white oak...

Heh, I let mine sit in the oven for days. I mean you're making dog food basically. Last I checked my dogs would eat raw cat **** without much argument, 4 day old spent grains I can't imagine that's gonna bother them. Plus you cook them so any nasties that propagate in that time will be just...

Being me I'd probably just use two of the paint strainer bags :D

Yeah making anything for personal use, whether's a little toke, a little smoke, a little drink, or some shots of something stronger, shouldn't be illegal, selling it of course amounts to tax evasion regardless of the law.

Can anyone find a case anywhere of someone in Alabama getting popped for JUST homebrewing as in homebrew is what got the LEO attention to begin with and homebrewing was the only "crime" they committed? Just curious really.