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One more question in your process you talk about putting them in a mesh bag. I assume this is so after the primary you can just lift them out? Is that correct? Also does your recipe scale up? So if I want to do 3 gallons X everything by 3? Thanks! Excited to try this. Never made a wine before.

I just went round there again and took a look and they are beginning to fall down and feel ripe. They taste very bitter! But I think if I don't get them soon they'll be take by the birds or will fall off. I'm north of Toronto so similar part of the world to you I think. Does it have to be an...

I was walking around my property today and found a HUGE crab apple tree. 2 questions - how do you know when to pick them & when you freeze them do you do anything special or just wash them and throw them in a bag? Thanks

Yes and I think my sparge volumes are good...

My boil is vigorous. I guess I need to go to beer smith and put in my actual numbers so I can get my efficiency correct.

Should read I'm consistently...

Inconsistently missing my gravity by 10 points. I've checked all the obvious things. Calibrated my hydrometer, checked temps , measured accurately. I did a double IPA today and my OG was 1.066 and it was supposed to be 1.078. I use a barley crusher and have a fairly tight crush. Any advice...

Very good!

Thanks guys. Eye feels fine today. Your posts made me smile so thanks for that!

Ouch!

Thought I'd share this after my brew day today. So I was having a good day and brewing with some tunes on. All was going well until I cleaned out the mash tun. So I had a smaller bucket that I was scooping the spent grains into and once I finished doing this I picked up the smaller bucket to...

Some people just sit the lids on top without even clicking them down so I wouldn't worry about it. Like you said co2 is protecting the beer so as long as stuff isn't floating into the beer it'll be fine. Good luck!

Up at 3.30am this morning to start my pumpkin beer. So far so good!

Right which is why up until now I just squash them and check my hops daily.

Just north of Toronto.

They seem to eat a leaf pretty quickly. So far I've just been taking them off when I say them.

Hi there There are lots of ways to get fermentation temps down. You can look up a swamp cooler on this forum or go as far as building a temperature controlled fridge or freezer. However assuming you want to keep it simple for now I would go with the seasons a bit more. Do ales in the summer...

Doing 20 gallons today so started at 4 am !

Brewed this a week ago and it already tastes very close to BMC stuff. Nice and clean looking already. I had some Willamette and Saas so went with those and it seems to be fine so far. My OG was off I was at about 1.035 so added some sugar and got that up to 1.040. My gravity after a week...

There are lots of ways to achieve this but one of the basic ways is a swamp cooler - check out this post. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/blogs/nordeastbrewer77/swamp-coolers-temperature-control-1342/