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    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    Thanks. Will see how many flowers I can collect today.
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    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    Did you add hot water to the flowers or cold? I assume you added K Meta and waited 24 hrs prior to pitching? What do you think about adding about a pound of sugar and KMeta to the flowers and letting them macerate for 24 hours prior to adding the water and starting the ferment? Would that...
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    Eastern Redbud - I'm going for it!

    @BigDaveK, Redbuds are blooming at my location. I am thinking about trying this. Have you tried this recently? Would you make it again, any changes? Is it best to pick flowers when they are in bud or fully opened.
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    Trellis

    I have no experience growing grapes. Last spring I planted a few. Two wine grape vines, Lomanto and Black Spanish and 4 muscadines , I built two 60 foot single wire trellises, I used 7" wood end post set at an angle, two 5" wood post 20 ft from each other and the ends and used 3 T post each a...
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    Ground Cherry - Wow!

    thank you, I do appreciate you sharing your observations.
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    Ground Cherry - Wow!

    I am not trying to be a dick or question your procedure/results but I am having trouble understanding some of this. If the juice SG was 1.060 and most of this is from sugar alcohols, and they aren’t fermentable, shouldn’t the ending SG be nearly unchanged? How can the SG have dropped all the way...
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    Ground Cherry - Wow!

    Sounds like I have my plan, a 3+ gallon full fruit ground cherry! Will probably use the 71b since I have that and I don't have any experience using QA23. I guess there was no problem starting fermentation at the 1.140? or did you step feed the sugar? I know the sugar alcohols won't ferment...
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    Ground Cherry - Wow!

    Have you tasted this yet? Did more fruit improve it? I have about 20 lbs frozen from last year and I'm trying to decide on how to proceed. I am thinking about a full fruit, starting with a lower pH, maybe 3.0-3.2 for a little more tartness. I have 71b yeast but thinking about trying QA23...
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    Skeeter Pee Port

    Do you bother adding K sorbate or depend on the high alcohol?
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    Skeeter Pee Port

    I am going to try this. Just to be sure, you start with 1 qt lemon juice in the original 5 gallon recipe instead of two, regular nutrient and tannin extra sugar to step feed until the EC-1118 gives up at 18-20% then add 4, or is it 5, more bottles of lemon juice (decreasing ABV), 750 ml...
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    Skeeter Pee Port

    Anyone, other than @hounddawg , made skeeter pee port? Did you like it? Thinking about scaling down the recipe and trying a gallon for fun.
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    I believe both calculations are correct, but your inputs are different. In @Khristyjeff's input you are starting with 6 gallons at 1.08, in yours you are starting with 4.739 gallons at 1.081. You are adding 1 gallon of water, AGAIN ROUGHLY, you will need 2 lbs of sugar to raise the sg of the...
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    Other Tweeking Cheap Kits

    You need to use your hydrometer. Roughly, 1 lb of sugar will raise the sg of 1 gallon by 0.450, so it would increase 6 gallons by 0.075. You would need 21 oz of sugar to increase sg by 0.010. You need add part, stir thoroughly, check this with a hydrometer then repeat until you reach your...
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    Faux brick wall

    Straw would block the wind and insulate the ground but I would have to buy straw. It also might attract rodents.
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