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I realized I'm OUT OF APFELWEIN last night (oh the horrors) so I made 6 gallons. Star Market had their store brand 100% apple juice for $1.78 per half gallon. So 12x1.78x1.085 = $23.175 added 5 pounds of white sugar and 4 pounds of dark brown sugar, OG=1.110 should be one ass kicker of a...

I should mention to any LEO's here, I don't hate cops, my best friend is about to become a detective (first for his city) and I sometimes hang out with him at work and buy the guys dinner or something. I am not a cop hating hippie.

They're probably looking at all the carboys, air locks, bottling buckets and wands, scratching their heads going "Hey Bubba, how the hell is this **** used to make meth?" "Dunno man but what else COULD it be used for?"

17,616+6=17,622

I don't know how well you know the fella but I'm gonna be surprised if the homebrew is the root cause of any warrants, but we may never actually know.

What brought him to the attention of law enforcement anyway? Any further info on this?

I got some free ones from Newcastle :D

I bought a new laser color printer but yeah it's already telling me to order supplies.

Not to mention the Federal Government since I believe that would be considered a felony. Not the poaching of Nintendo's trademarks but the whole selling of unlicensed alcohol. Also I believe there's a general rule around here about not even talking about this so yeah this is simply for my...

I buy whatever is on sale that's 100% juice and no artificial flavors. I imagine if you had real apples of different types you could juice yourself I'm sure you could turn out much more exquisite wine but meh, this works and it literally costs less than $30 for a 5 gallon batch of wine and...

Yes,, I use bottling buckets mostly, I just get annoyed cleaning carboys so I just ferment in bottling buckets, then rack by simply hooking up a tube and opening the tap, except for the most trubified of beers this works fine. I haven't actually carbed it like beer yet, I did try it on some...

That person would never taste another drop of my beer, period.

Anytime I have a wine of questionable taste I find that just throwing a splash of Sprite into the glass makes a world of difference. So I sulphited the stuff last night mixed it up real good and added sugar and water to take it to about 2 inches from the top of a bottling bucket (so right...

Ok this was at least 40-50 pounds of grapes so ~8 gallons, what I'm going to do is let out about a half gallon of the juice, and several scoops of the goop and put that in my 3 gallon carboy and then top that off with apple juice and shoot for a 1.100 SG, then I'll top off the remainder with...

Ok so here we go the "trub" floated to the top, so I just opened the spigot.: It's almost a 50/50 mix of pulp and pretty watery "juice". See how dark red this stuff is, actually almost purple are you saying if I ferment this without the skins I'll end up with a blush wine rather than a...

That's what I'm doing now ;) But yeah the grapes were dumped in my lap Friday night so I kinda leaped before I looked (such as pureeing them up I thought hey if mashing them by foot is good, a hand mixer should ROCK right?). So here we are I'm hoping to create something drinkable at least.

I shall do exactly this then, pour into 5 gallon strainer (all sanitized) squeeze it as best I can, tie it off, let it soak. Add water and sugar to make a full 6 gallons and 1.100(ish) SG, meta it for 24 hours (24 right?) add pectic enzyme, and then pitch yeast. Stir daily for about a week...

Yes it is, and I drank 4 of them last night while playing Starcraft 2 with my friends ;)

Ok so strain my stuff, then tie the bag off and put it back in the fermenter, add pectic enzyme and pitch yeast, then just remove bag and press it after the primary (for maximum red) or toss the bag before fermenting (for a much lighter colored wine)? Sounds like maybe I'm getting an idea now ;)