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So I’m getting ready to bottle my first batch of SP. Obviously we’ll drink it straight up but are there any good SP cocktails using the original SP?

I followed the recipe and my batch cleared very well in about 10 days with the exception of a minor amount of stuff that hung suspended in the SP. Hard to explain but the stuff was about 1/8" in size. Would have thought something that big would have fallen to the bottom. I just racked again and...

5117 + 5= 5122

I started a batch of SP on Saturday afternoon and added the yeast slurry this morning. We're leaving Friday around lunchtime for the long Memorial Day weekend. Not sure how long it will take for the yeast to get active and for the SG to drop to 1.050. If the SG has not dropped by the time we...

This the exact reason I started bulk aging. Is there a suggested time for bulk aging reds and whites? I'm just getting back into wine making and as I recall I'd end the aging when my supply of wine started running low. I'm looking at buying a few 3 gallon carboys so I can bottle half and keep...

My hydrometer arrived earlier this week so I set off for the local home brew shop and picked up a WE LE20 Synergy kit since the wife prefers whites. Proceeded to clean up the old equipment. While sanitizing my fermenting bucket the spigot was dripping. Inspected it and found that the plastic had...

Thanks for all the thoughtful replies and good information. It sounds like I need to do some reading to learn how to take the readings and then what to do with them after I have them. I was operating under the misconception that SG readings were mostly to determine ABV which I wasn't overly...

When I started making beer around 1990 the store owner who taught me to brew told me I really didn't need to worry about SG and that I would still make great beer. So I Relaxed and Had a Homebrew for about 20 years and never took a single SG reading. I was bottling and kegging as fast as I could...

I bought two of the LE2013 kits at my local shop. Before I started my first one I replaced the spigot on my bucket because the inside looked really nasty and I couldn't find a way to open the valve to clean it. When I made the first kit the new spigot dripped about 10 drops and stopped. I made...

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I made an IM Black Raspberry Merlot. It turned out great except for some sediment in the bottom of the bottle. The first three glasses from the bottle are crystal clear but the person who gets the last (usually me) ends up with a fairly cloudy glass. I racked from the carboy to my bottling...