I have a bucket of stout I worked really hard on, and I'm pretty sure it's reached FG, but there's a smell to it that doesn't seem right. I'm going to try putting it in secondary for a while to see if it subsides. Two questions:
1) The smell I think is similar to vinegar, all I can pair it to...
I do. The state I live in is pretty easygoing with alcohol distribution and homebrewing, but one area they don't play around is liquor/distilling laws. So, I'm very much aware of what I'm not supposed to be doing, if you get my drift.
I assume that if it's stored in high enough abv, there...
This year the harvest from the orchard was the best in recent memory. Heck, I'm pretty sure it was the best year my family ever had. Especially the Cortlands. I had enough bushels, I could have made just under a hecto of xxx batch. But with the cold weather, I bet that batch would have frozen a...