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• Posted in thread: Started: First Quad Berry DB on 03-23-2013 at 01:43 PM
  Bottled! Got the approval of the main customer, my wife. See the main DB thread for a Q I have
  about a leftover haze, not sure if you can see it in the pic.7521I know t that's not a proper
  cork, this ...

• Posted in thread: Dragon Blood: Triple Berry Skeeter Pee on 03-23-2013 at 01:40 PM
  Bottled mine yesterday, and got a resounding approval from my wife. It tastes exactly as people
  have described it, with slightly stringer lemon than I'd like right now but it's perfect for my
  wife's t...

• Posted in thread: Dragon Blood: Triple Berry Skeeter Pee on 03-21-2013 at 01:34 PM
  Dave, have you ever let a batch age in the carboy? I simply haven't had time to bottle the
  batch I racked almost a month ago, I'm wondering if it will have mellowed as much as it would
  had I bottled i...

• Posted in thread: Dragon Blood: Triple Berry Skeeter Pee on 03-11-2013 at 12:38 PM
  I just racked my 6 gal batch of DB but I came up short. What can I use to top up my carboy?I
  ran into this as well on my first batch, so I'm interested to hear what people say. I used a
  good 15 second...

• Posted in thread: Dragon Blood: Triple Berry Skeeter Pee on 03-04-2013 at 02:54 PM
  Dave: I should have mentioned that I already used kieselsol and chitosan to clear, and they
  worked quite well. I'm going to give it another week to see if anything else precipitates out.
  Time is norma...

• Posted in thread: Dragon Blood: Triple Berry Skeeter Pee on 03-04-2013 at 01:21 PM
  I racked my first batch yesterday to get the wine off the fine lees in the secondary, and snuck
  a sampling in at the same time. I noticed a distinct yeasty sour flavour. It's partially masked
  by the a...

• Posted in thread: Started: First Quad Berry DB on 03-03-2013 at 07:06 PM
  So I racked again today to get the wine off the fine lees in the secondary, and found that in
  had no discernible CO2, either when splash racking for 30 seconds or in tasting. Phew!However,
  I do notice...

• Posted in thread: Started: First Quad Berry DB on 02-28-2013 at 12:29 PM
  Triplett, yeah I think I should have degassed a couple more times. I did it til the battery on
  my cordless drill died and then continued by hand, but the CO2 in this is stubborn I guess. The
  temp was ...

• Posted in thread: Started: First Quad Berry DB on 02-27-2013 at 06:17 PM
  With a starting SG of 1.085-1.09, you're looking at a final ABV of between 11.9 and 12.5,
  depending on yield. If you go all the way from 1.09 down to 0.995, you should be around
  12.5-12.9%.

• Posted in thread: Started: First Quad Berry DB on 02-27-2013 at 04:44 PM
  So I siphoned to secondary on Monday, added stabilizers, degassed for 15 mins then added
  kieselsol and chitosan to clear. I ended up with a strange effect: most of the lees fell to the
  bottom just fin...