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Malkore, that is interesting, perhaps it was something else and I assumed wrong. It really was a nasty, permeating stink. I do use rubber bungs though, and perhaps that was what got into the wine. Thank goodness I have had great success with beer, or I would be getting a little frustrated! :)...

Thank you for your condolences on my lost batch. Luckily my wine experiments are only 1 gallon at a time and I am learning many valuable lessons. So far I have learned: 1. Rack off the lees early, you can let beer primary for a month, but not wine. Also autolysis smells like a goodyear...

So my attempt at making pin cherry wine has failed. I now have a little over half a gallon of what smells an awful lot like balsamic vinegar. I'm not fully sure of what happened (actually I do know that it must be an acetobacter infection, I just don't know how that happened). My question is...

In the three years I spent flying floatplanes in the north, there were three fatalities in my area directly caused by CO poisoning from unvented cooking appliances. Two of the people killed were a father and son on vacation, the rest of the family showed up the next day and found the bodies...

I've never used treacle, but are you used to baked beans with molasses? Perhaps you associate the treacle flavour with the beans.

This summer I had a dandelion wine that had been burried under a shrub in an old mason jar for 10+ years. It had been made by a well intentioned yet amature wine maker with some sugar/dandelions/bread yeast. Considering the frost line here runs 47 - 52" and this was buried 6" or so, the jar...

A woman walks into a doctor's office and says, 'Doctor, I have the worst gas. It doesn't make any noise or smell bad, but I fart constantly!' He gives her a prescription and tells her to come back in a week. One week later she comes back she says, 'What did you give me? My gas didn't...

Very good, thanks for the advice. I was kind of leaning that way, fingers are crossed. :)

On the most recent all grain batches I have made, I've noticed that the FG has been staying a little higher than I would like (around 1.017 to 1.020), so in trying to drop this down a little, my most recent batch I did a 90 minute mash around 149 to thin out the final product just a little. I...

I'm having a little difficulty with the concept of wasting water. I hear about it more and more but perhaps someone could help me understand the step where the water is wasted. The following is my understanding of how water is used, feel free to correct me if someone can. Step 1 : Water comes...

Although I do not bottle from primary, I do bottle from a glass carboy. When racking from secondary (if I used one) or primary, I dump the dissolved priming sugar into the carboy and rack on top of it. I then use an autosiphon and bottling wand to fill bottles. I started doing this to reduce...

Seriously, beer goes through some pretty funny phases in the fermentation, and I wouldn't let that one phase me, although I will ask whether you used water in the airlock, or starsan or vodka or something else. If it was anything other than starsan or vodka, I would probably consider replacing...

Let me get this straight, you have a spectrophotometer and need to do an experiment, and want to do it on beer. So really you are trying to put the beer into Beer's law. That, good sir, is a noble cause. mmmmmm....August Beer.....

Close. Methanol in of itself is not particularly toxic, it is the metabolites (or the chemicals that are created as your body breaks it down, (these include formate and formaldehyde), that are. When you consume ethanol at the same time, the ethanol competes with the methanol for the enzyme which...

So far I have made 4 batches with notty (all with the bad lot), and they have all fermented as well as one could expect. I am something of a noob, but I definitely got some aromas and flavours during transferring and bottling that I found pretty unsettling. I'm trying to identify it as some of...

I would probably contemplate doing one the pumpkin ale recipes and just sub sweet potato for the pumpkin. In fact I think that has been done. Of course for most of those recipes you need to enjoy the 'holiday spice', and I don't know if that is what you are going for. Good luck, I love the...

You will see yeast growing in the bottles, hold one up to the light and give it a little swirl. You should see a small cloud billow off of the bottom.

well, a bunch of people are about to tell you to wait at least two more weeks, but seriously, put one in the fridge for a day, take it out tomorrow and drink it. It will taste green, and will definitely not be fully carbonated, heck it might not be even partially carbonated, but getting to...

Wow, that is really interesting. So it turns out that me sucking at whirlpooling is good for my beer. :) I gotta be honest, it sounds like a confluence of events that got you, not the least of which was the relatively large amount of crystal malt. I actually got suprisingly low attenuation...

I have always used a siphon/bottling wand and bottled out of a glass carboy instead of using a bucket. I figured that this helps keep sanitizing easier and more effective as there is no spigot to worry about, and the small mouth on the carboy keeps dust and whatnot out, and reduces exposure to...