Help! First timer with trouble.

[woozy]

Oh... "one gallon jars". Do they have enough headspace? You want a few inches above the water line for foam, co2 layers, and blowoff. Read up on blow-off tubes. You'll need that information.

 

[kh54s10]

I would like to add a few things:


4. Avoid Wyeast smack packs for one gallon batches. They are too much yeast and not resealable. Go with either dry or white labs vials.

Really? White Labs vials and Wyeast contain approximately the same amount of yeast.

Or, did you mean not to use it because, while both Wyeast and White Labs have too much yeast, the White Labs vial can be resealed and the Wyeast pouch cannot.

 

[kaconga]

Really? White Labs vials and Wyeast contain approximately the same amount of yeast.

Or, did you mean not to use it because, while both Wyeast and White Labs have too much yeast, the White Labs vial can be resealed and the Wyeast pouch cannot.

Exactly. Mark off the vial at approx the halfway mark and then use approx half the vial per gallon batch for a 1.060 gravity batch. This is just rough numbers mind you. A smack pack once opened cannot be resealed easily and there is a greater risk of contamination with adding storage containers.

 

[Drunken-Sailor]

Thanks again all. As for processed apple juice...meh, I've got access to several apple trees, one of which is in my yard. I've also got access to peach trees, blackberry bushes, blueberry bushes, cherry trees, honey suckles, muscadines, persimmons, walnuts, I grow a ton of different kinds of veggies....I am rarely short on potential ingredients outside of winter. I am looking forward to trying a few things out. A batch at a time...

I still want to try out some beer though...

 

[joey210]

hi all.. could anyone help me with a H.brew red wine problem? my secondary demijohn smells like really bad eggs? .. its been in the secondary demijohn for over a week... i made the wine from : Carton pure concentrate apple juice, 1tspn bread yeast ( most ppl say its cool to use bread yeast for beginners ), white sugar, 1tspn yeast nutrient.. i left it in the primary for 6 days, siphoned it into the secondary and the smell hasn't gone.. im concerned that i havnt sterilized properly so i have just added half a crushed Campden tablet to my 1 gallon secondary demijn.. is this awful smell a way of telling if its contaminated? or will the smell past over time? also would the campden tablet now stop any contamination if there was any there to begin with? i dont wanna drink anything that smells of eggs ,,,, nooooooo way hooooozay)