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Fermented at an average of 70 to 75 ( only have window air conditioners) temp varies a bit. Seems like the yeast didn't convert the sugars very much it's so sweet . Still drank all but an inch out of the bottle. Maybe I will add some yeast to see if it converts the sugars or maybe it's too...

Bottled my first rice wine yesterday. Huh... It smells like overripe fruits With a hint of dumpster mixed in and that's when cold. But tastes much better than the smell. Its odd. It very sweet, very tart not really alcoholic or the other tastes overpower it. Seems like it be great for...

That sounds like a good thread to start . Alcohol related TMI posts.

Every bidet I have come across here or in Europe has a spray that's about as effective as the stream from a drinking fountain , whereas my detachable shower head has a very narrow pulsed high pressure spray . Mabe your shower head sucks .IDK . Plus using the shower head I can have nice warm...

Also the needed pressure for cleanliness is not available thri cheap Amazon products . High. Pressure. Spray. Das ist alles . Danke

If you think somehow your ass is anywhere in the ballpark of clean after using glorified tree paper , you are dilusional. I will restate my position if you got crap on your hand or stomach or damn near anywhere else on your body , water is used. Just some how on your ass its gross? No...again I...

Who is talking about pooping in the bathtub? I wash my ass just like I would during a shower in the bathtub. I hope we all wash our asses in the bathtub during a shower. I also don't own my home so there is no installing a bidet. And good luck finding a cheap rental in America with a bidet.

I don't use toilet paper either because using paper to smear crap anywhere on your body is nasty. If you got poop on your knee or in between your toes a wad of toilet paper wouldn't be good enough anywhere else on your body and water would be used. I'm not rich so I don't have a bidet. I use...

"2:1 (water : rice) when boiling sticky rice is way too much. I also tried cooking in a rice cooker at 1:1.5 (water : rice) and even that yielded a much wetter, stickier rice than the steaming method. " I only had jasmine rice on hand so that may account for something. I just used the...

Made the rice wine making plunge yesterday after reading this thread for a few days. 5.5 cups rice, 11 cups water (cooked not steamed), made gallon of volume (more than i thought) had to improvise glass container for overflow. yeast balls of hopefully right type from local Asian of some sort...

I have only gotten thru 100 pages of this thread so far but couldn't wait to ask if anyone has used Nuruk As a starter culture for their rice wine. It is usually used as a starter for making Korean makgeolli. Which is a watered down rice wine . It seems to have many many strains of fungi...

The last 3 brews I've made I haven't liked. I drank them. Others enjoyed them , much more than I did. But it's starting to impact my enthusiasm for the hobby . I want a simple to brew , malt forward session able ale that is very low hopped or bittered and can use the pale malts that I bought in...

I really hate all the cleaning and sanitizing to bottle and can't afford a keg setup so I haven't been bottling . I have cut way back on my beer drinking so I don't run out of what I have and I have 2. 5 gallon batches that have been done but are"ageing?" Kind of . Also I had Gave out and...

So I'm back into all grain. Thought I had it all figured out. Strike temp, water to grain ratio, etc. put in the strike water and bam I am 12 degrees F low . WTF!! So desperately try to heat remaining water and add..... Still to low I'm at 149 better. Decant and bring to 212 one gallon of wort...

I like beer. sometimes, I worry, too much. So I take week long breaks just to make sure that I'm not going too deep into it. Cuz almost every day I drink a stein or two (one liter each). I enjoy drinking the homemade nectar that I have created. I stopped smoking ( due to inability to pay) 2...

So ... My first all grain brewing day in 5 years comes around and I forget to put on the filter on the MLT before I pour the strike water on the grains. Sigh .. Then I couldn't locate the thermometer duiring all this but had an infrared thermometer instead but was giving readings all over the...

A few years ago I lost my ability to smell.. Anything . I could have lived in a sewage plant and never smelled a thing. Had a cold and got nerve damage the doc said and it's common apparently. It was so bad I stopped home brewing cuz it all tasted bad . Fast forward 5 years and I have 80-85 of...

This thread makes me feel so much better. I feel like less of a turd. My issue is I'm cheap. My kettle is a 54 quart aluminum tamale steamer 30 bucks. Glass car boys at pottery barn. 14 each . I don't own a gravity reader ,refractomiter etc I'm cash poor and have to justify to the wife

As many have said it is a cream ale but the brewer uses Wyeast 2565 Kolsch yeast. I love the stuff . It is because it not über this or that and has no big flaws, but is so drinkable. I live in northern ill so I occasionally go to get some. If yours turns out well then this will be my next brew