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  1. 3274mike

    Experimental Juice ideas

    Update just racked Carmel,sweet corn, wheat juice experiment. Still cloudy, which I expect a long clearing time, very dark in carboy, golden wheat color in clear hose. Doesn't really taste like wine, not a beer flavor, the wife says I taste like some sort of cider. Has a Carmel wheat fragrance...
  2. 3274mike

    Floor corker getting hard

    Just a thought at some point you stated that you soaked corks in kmeta before corking an wondered if this affect the jaws . As I read this it seemed like this practice was in past tense are you dry corking now because yes they will not go in as easy dry, but I probably miss understand what I read
  3. 3274mike

    White powdery film on the surface

    Not a definite answer for you but did you use kmeta before starting your ferment? This kills the things you don't want in there. Second did you stir this everyday while it was fermenting. If it was stirred daily, I stir twice a day during ferment, fruit and juices Wil get that film on it,I...
  4. 3274mike

    In need of cork education

    One other question is are putting in corks dry many say to steam with sanitizer I just put them in a bowl of water and a little sanitizer shake them off then use them. I use an inexpensive table corker it's all plastic but works well best is a floor corker. I have dry corked it is more work and...
  5. 3274mike

    Experimental Juice ideas

    Thanks I read some things on grains and different extraction went with a cold soak. And plan on adding sugar due to the difficulty of processing the grain sugars as you stated. Will soak for the night and then introduce corn tomorrow. Hope the aroma come with the grain smells amazing. But will...
  6. 3274mike

    Experimental Juice ideas

    Here goes, time to do a freezer clean out wine, I have lots of fozen sweet corn it really sweet sweetcorn, go figure. It's really good but family had too much of it. So sweet corn wine it is. Not sure the exact amount I'm guessing 10 to 15 lbs corn maybe some zucchini and a few things I picked...
  7. 3274mike

    concord blackberry wine start

    Sounds good make sure you use yeast nutrient like Fermax it will start faster and held fermintation through process and consider adding a bannana it will smooth out faster . Best way for bannana use is to boil and smash until almost pure liquid helps welches wines a lot
  8. 3274mike

    What's in your glass tonight?

    Yep his wife's aunt gave them to me
  9. 3274mike

    What's in your glass tonight?

    A little gift from a friend
  10. 3274mike

    2nd batch of DB...help!

    You need to know your starting sg reading of your hydrometer also why would there be activity if you haven't pitched the yeast yet, if you see activity before yeast it's probably not a good thing with that style of wine did you add Camden tablets at start? Not trying to beat you up but you...
  11. 3274mike

    Anyone fly fish or have rod preferences

    Thanks for replying, talked a guy at field and stream today who used to guide in northern michigan for a long time he pretty much sold me on a redington path it's probably the middle ground between inexpensive and expensive. Showed me the redington path next to one of the sage rods not a lot of...
  12. 3274mike

    Anyone fly fish or have rod preferences

    Just curious if any of you fly fish on here? New to sport actually haven't done it in like 25 years and it was like a handful of times. So I have some fly rigs bUT they are mostly I would call vintage. Looking at buying a fly combo to start with lots of people suggest Orvis encounter $169 5-6wt...
  13. 3274mike

    Stainless steel wine tank sweating

    I would think that would be normal for it to sweat like water pipes do with fluctuations in temperature
  14. 3274mike

    Wine yeast alcohol tolerance

    The thread is in the tutorials, calculators,wine logs and yeast charts It's called yeast selection good to print this one out and put in wine room or recipe books or in car to have when shopping, just a handy list good luck have fun
  15. 3274mike

    Wine yeast alcohol tolerance

    I believe maybe in beginner forumn or some place there is a sticky that shows the most common yeast use alchol tolerance and such for red star, lavin and maybe white labs hopefully a moderator with there vast knowledge will chime in to tell where it's located good for a quick reference when...
  16. 3274mike

    Open fermentation

    All that and I forgot to type no at this stage probably is not a huge risk of contamination
  17. 3274mike

    Open fermentation

    You should not be putting a lid on the primary fermintation cheese cloth is a good idea I use a towel keeps things out easy to check and stir and if doing kits I'm guessing it's 5 gallon go to your supply store and buy a bigger bucket so even when foaming it shouldn't foam over. A primary...
  18. 3274mike

    Bubbling Over

    As Julie said take off airlock and unsnap lid put a towel over it or cheese cloth so it can breath but keeps bugs out I use a strainer bag over mine
  19. 3274mike

    How to clean old sausage press?

    Here it is not as bad as I originally thought
  20. 3274mike

    How to clean old sausage press?

    I will post a picture soon and as far as how it will work it's gt to be better than doing it by hand
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