Recent content by weston08

Thanks for all your replies! This batch seems to be going strong in the secondary (which hopefully will take care of everything). Time will tell, but due to your posts, I'm glad I didn't dump this batch! It's been very interesting to see all the differences between the yeast strains; color...

We pressed fresh Northern Spies directly into the primary fermentation tanks. There was no extra filtration or anything.

For this recipe, while in the primary, the must is simply covered with a towel since it gasses off so much. Once it goes into the secondary an air lock is required to keep the oxygen out. Do you think I will need to do anything special to this batch or should I just carry on like normal?

Yes I do think it is krausen since I have not stirred it. I usually do with my own recipes, but the recipe I followed did not indicate to do so and I was trying to keep everything as constant as possible. Stirring may have been the biggest thing that I've learned about with this experiment. I've...

I've never played around with yeast strains that much in my 6 years of making wine. To try to get a better understanding of different types of yeast I followed the EC Kraus recipe for 5 gallons of apple wine, four different times. Each 5 gallons I used a different yeast: Montrachet, D47...