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Figured I would use the splits as tasting bottles. When the wine peaks, crack open the bigger bottles! Lol

I'm a waiter and bartender. I get ALL of my wine bottles and beer bottles from work. Lol. I've got anything from a double mag down to a Champaign split for bottle size. We have street side recycling pick up so I don't even know where the local recycling center is, though that could be fixed with...

Problem solved. Ran up to the local brew shop this morning and got a 3 gallon carboy. This way I am set up to do almost any size I need, or at least that's what I told the wife. Racked into the 3 gallon and the 1 gallon I already had. is that going to be too much head space in the 1 gallon? Time...

ok, talked it over with the old ball and chain. 1 gallon glass carboy are less than $4. I'm going to go grab 2 more as soon as my local store opens in the morning. I hope it can last that long without doing a lot of damage.

Is there another option? I have, exactly, 1-one gallon and 1-five gallon carboy. I just got the 5 gallon carboy, and a few other things, today and the wife will lay a golden egg if I run up there and spend more money.

Side note, the TV never gets turned on in that room so it doesn't affect the temp.

Popped the top today after running up to the local brew shop. WOW was that a smell. Gravity reading is 1.000. I removed the fruit filled bag and racked over to the carboy. I took a little sip. It still has some fizz to it and tasted like over ripe watermelon. The watermelon flavor is STRONG...

So about that yeast... Since stating this I have gone and gotten a note pad to keep better records. The most I did was to fill out the info in the spots on the side of the primary fermentation bucket. I asked the gentleman at the local brew it yourself shop for a yeast that would top out at 15%...

grabbed a recipe off of a youtube dude. (might not have been the best idea) It was simpl, squeeze enough watermelons to come up with 5 gallons of juice, add sugar to bring it up to 1.150ish (I over shot), add yeast, and let it do it's thing. We had a HUGE harvest of watermelons from our garden...

original hydrometer reading was 1.161. I'm going to crack it open tomorrow, my next day off, and take a reading to see if it is done. I also used a yeast that would top out at 15%. I was told that the amount of bubbles in the air lock was a good indication of what was going on, but only an...

Howdy all Brand spanking new to all of this. We made a one gallon batch of mead a few years back, but we put it in a closet and forgot about it for several months. by the time we got back to it the air lock was bone dry and everything inside had a fowl smell. This time, we have a 5...