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Bottled a cyser today. A friend of mine in North Dakota wants me to send him a bottle. What is the general consensus on this? I've seen other threads regarding the different laws, but can't find them.

Decided to make a sweet dessert wine. Here's what's happened so far: Boiled 1/2 pound of sliced raw almonds and 2 lb. of raisins for an hour. Strained and reserved the juice. Pitched a gallon of cranberry juice (just cran, no blend) onto the yeast cake from a batch of mead D47). Added 5 cans of...

Anyone have an easy/cheap way to remove the paint that is screened onto bottles? I like to bottle in liquor bottles, usually removing labels, but a lot of brands are now screen printed with paints that seem to be tougher than the glass they're printed on. Any tips? I was thinking a canister of...

What widely available beers have you guys successfully harvested yeast from? rhino farts and rocket fuel!

Just got a bunch of "real lemon" juice. Its full of preservitives. Is it safe to throw onto a kick a$$ yeast cake? rhino farts and rocket fuel!

What are your preferred places to get 1 gallon glass jugs? I see some people posting aj/cider pics that come in glass, but I've yet to search those out. In the past, I bought a couple of Carlo Rossi jugs of wine, which are as fun to empty as they are to fill back up. Also, what are the price...

Started a cyser on 1-4-14 and today took a reading. Down below 1! OG was 1.16. Red star champagne yeast. Did the standard SNA and degassed three times. Sampled the sample, and there's a bit of sweetness left. Did I just make it to 20% abv in 11 days?

Putting this in the mead forum, because mazers are better than all the other homebrewers combined. ;-) I can drink a twelver o beer, two bottles of wine, or half a fifth of whiskey and still stand still. Why does homebrew get me giddy? After two glasses of whatever concoctions I've got going...

Had some holiday cyser bottled in Dickle bottles. Turned on their sides in the cabinet above the stove. The wife and I were watching a gangster flick when BOOM!, a noise from the rear of the house. I spring from the recliner, put my moccasins on, grab my gun, and walk towards the back door. Then...

I was thinking of using the leftovers from a previous batch to make a yeast energizer cheap. Can I just boil it and then add it to a must?

Was thinking of trying an experiment. One 2 liter bottle fitted with an airlock, and one 2 liter bottle that is 2/3 full with the air squeezed out and the regular cap on, creating a small vacuum. Any thoughts from the scientists?

After making sourdough for awhile, I was wondering if a flour/water mixture could be fermented into a wine (beer). Any thoughts?

Guessing it won't work, but if I sit a carboy in front of a blacklight, will it kill the yeast?

As the winter holidays are fast approaching, I want to know what your "dish" is that you will take to the family gathering, company party, etc.? Keep it to one or two dishes, no recipes (unless someone asks). Pictures are encouraged. Maybe what homebrew you're paring it with.

I use a sanitizer named Sani-Sure, which I get free from work. The active ingredient is trichloromelamine, and the instructions say it provides chlorine at 125 ppm. If I keep it in an airtight bucket, how long will it remain effective?

Three weeks ago, I started a sourdough starter with 2 cups water, 2 cups flour and a pinch each of Red Star Champagne, Red Star Montrachet, and Fleiscman's bread yeast. Been making awesome bread for a week now. Starting to smell sour now. Good stuff....

Just got the sanitizer bucket from our dishwasher at the restaurant. It was a 5 gal white plastic (#2) pail with the brand new lid and gasket from the replacement. The lid has a standard 2" screw opening offset to one end. There are probably very few scratches on the inside, as it's a setnforget...

Wanna see your carboys, your growlers, your tanks and jars. What do you ferment in? What do you age in? What do like to serve out of?

Last week I tried a couple hard ciders we had at work. The first was Crispin, which cam in a clear, 12 oz bottle. It was almost flavorless and had no mouth feel. Next up was Blackthorn. It came in a 16 oz. can. Equally flavorless and thin. I would not purchase either of these. We also have Redds...

Figured this would go best in the cider forums. I'm treading lightly, as I know the subject draws the ire of some. This is just my account of watching the "art" of pruno production and my opinion on the taste. For those of you that don't know, Pruno is an alcoholic beverage produced by inmates...