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I didn't want to shell out the shekels for a stainless punchdown tool so I decided to use what I had. I took some 3/4" PVC pipe and a cutting board and came up with the following. I took a cutting board, put it on the table saw, drilled a hole in the center and rounded the edges off by...

I want to protect my barrel until the fall so it looks like the best way for me is to use sulfur discs. However, I am getting conflicting information (shocking, I know) on how dry the barrel should be before using a sulfur disc. I have read that the barrel needs to be "bone dry" all the way to...

I finally got my first oak barrel in anticipation of this years harvest. I went the cheap route and bought an unused 15 gallon Bourbon barrel with a medium char. I figured my time is costing me zero so I would get rid of the char and toast it myself. Well, this is a lot harder than it looks...

I built one of the many DIY carboy washers (there are hundreds of videos on how to) and found out that you can have too large a motor. If you use a 1/4 horsepower motor, you will push water into the carboy faster than it can escape. After 10 minutes, you end up with a carboy full of liquid. I...

It's off season so I'm pretty bored. I used the time over the past couple of weeks to mark my carboys with the volume and the country of origin. I measured gallon by gallon marking with sharpie on blue tape. I then masked each mark and used the glass etching cream to create the mark. I repeated...

I happen to work with Generative AI so I tried a fairly specific request in ChatGPT. I think this is actually very good and might make my spreadsheet obsolete ... ========= You how much fermaid-o is needed for 20 gallons of wine must ChatGPT The amount of Fermaid-O needed for 20 gallons of wine...