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So this is a little late but I haven't been on in awhile... I first tried making wine because I had a persimmon tree in my front yard that was producing way more fruit than I could eat. I had the opportunity to trynearlya dozen batches of various sizes over 2 years and I found out a couple...

sweet, thanks!

In celebration of FVW's new beer supplies, thinking of trying either a wit or belgian ale. Both call for a 'belgian aromatic malt', I saw a dingeman'saromatic in the ingredients list on the site, is that similar enough/the same? Did I just completely miss the belgian aromatic somewhere? Thanks...

anybody have a suggestion on a specific wine yeast for blackberries? Got probably 25lbs frozen for a 5 gallon batch, if the lbs/gal has any weight on the situation. I'd like it to finish dry so I can have some dry and then backsweeten some more. I don't know how high the starting SG of just...

they're not better bottles, just the standard ole glass ones. I think it might have been an attempt at making a racking spigot that didn't work out so well, but that's just my guess. I don't know of a good way of attaching a spigot to the hole without worrying about leaking, so I'm fine with...

I'llprobably take you up on that! I'd like to eventually try something fancy like a russian imperial stout or a belgianstyle ale or something, kinda shooting for the stars right away I know. But I'm thinking that starting off with something simpler would be the more intelligent choice (like DME...

I just picked up two 5 gallon carboys (for free ), but they have had a small hole drilled into the side which was then filled with aquarium silicone to seal it. It doesn't leak, i know that much for sure. I'm not sure if this was originally a racking spout or what but the price was certainly...

UPS and FedEx are about even here, I have a slight lean towards UPS but mainly a cheaper price thing. That is until I needed to ship something to Canada one day (from Florida) that was worth about $20. FedEx wanted $80-something and UPS wasn't much better. Went to the local post office and it...

hmm, well I hate to admit it, but I have been complaining about my grill not putting out much flame for awhile. Guess what, I always left the burners on and turned off the tank. I just tried what your manual said and my grill works much better now, so, uhh, thanks

so I have been purposely buying the grolsch swing top beers the past two weeks from the local liquor store, but thenI figured I might as wellcheck ebay to see how much they would be to just buy empty and used. Someone wants $35 with shipping for 6 bottles!!! Don't know about prices in the rest...

I vote east towards northern Florida ! What a setup though, and here I am debating what I want to try for my very first beer brew....

that sounds like my reasoning behind the wal-mart $2.97 bottles of 'Oak Leaf' wine, never fails to make methink 'hey my wine is pretty darn good in comparison to this stuff', but then again after factoring in the bottle and potentially shipping, the wine is less thna a dollar

alrighty, kinda figured that but wanted to make sure. Well nowI have an excuse to buy better beer, you know, since they have the pry off tops

ok stupid question time, can you use the screw off top type bottles and crimp them or only the pry off type of bottles? Thinking of trying beer for the first time and collecting up bottles, just wondering if both kinds will work or just the pry off type of bottles Thanks

resurrecting an oldie here, I waited till bottling and tasting to share this, so kinda sorta has stood a short test of time in one gallon :). I have a persimmon tree in my yard (makes a light colored wine) and in one of the many batches I decided to try adding some hickory chips that I use for...

heck, for $3600, I'll drive from Florida with our bucket truck and burn it all in a corner of your yard! Seriously though, best of luck!

we have a trailer park with hundreds of trees, mostly oaks and pines. We usually have at least one or two hit a year, sometimes more, but the thing that seems to do the trees in down here is beetles. After the tree gets hit I guess it gets 'weaker' because it seems like the wood-boring beetles...

don't know if this is a bad idea or not but it seems to work: I've got the same corker as mentioned earlier and i came to the conclusion that compressing the little bit of air inside the bottle was what kept making the cork stick back out. So I got a little bit of 20# monofilament fishing line...

bump on this one, I was toying with the idea of making a persimmon wine sparkling (have a few champagne bottles and plenty of persimmon wine to play with), but I don't know how much sugar to add per bottle, don't want any explosions! I'm assuming after a good amount of time has passed in the...

if you throw in the whole packet instead of, say 1/4 of a packet, it should theoretically take 2 more reproduction cycles for the 1/4 to reach the same size colony as the full, how that fits in with the amount of time, the theoretical versus actual reproduction, and presence of things that...