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Does it expire/die? I bought about 20 packs of ec1118 and stuck them in the butter shelf in the fridge, but it's been a couple months. How long will they be viable?

I have been on a slight rampage of fermenting anything I can get my hands on. Most recently, I bought some grape juice from costco, put it in a 1ga carboy, 2lb sugar, ec1118 yeast, nutrients on day 2-4-6. It's been a month now, fermentation is still hanging on but basically done. I haven't...

And it's easy to remove. There's a special place for people who put duct tape on carboys. I just picked up a couple 6.5g for $20 off marketplace, and there were 6" strips down the side of both. And they'd been there for years. It took me well over an hour to get it all off.

Second time around. First time each gallon yielded 4 bottles, despite all the pulp separation Costco mango juice, 1.5lb white sugar, ec1118 yeast. Nutrients on days 2, 4, 6 at 1tsp each day. Total fermentation time 2 weeks. Bottled and left to sit for 2 weeks. Same recipe with dragonfruit...

Last year I was feeling lazy. I threw 2lb brown sugar, 1 cinnemon stick, 4 cloves into the 1gal carboy, filled with apple juice from costco, ec1118 yeast. It sat for 2 weeks until the bubbles stopped. I bottled it, and drank it. And it was damned good. I've since repeated this 4 times, and and...

In rural PA, doing the self sufficiency thing raising goats and chickens, plants a good amount of food, off grid power. Why not throw booze into the ring. I do wines and meads, my focus being meads since I can harvest honey from the bee's. I've done about a dozen or so batches now with good...