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Hi, I mixed a batch of dragon blood evening of 4/29. 6 campden tabs and a 40 oz bottle real lemon. pitched ec-1118 morning of 4/30. morning of 5/2 had no activity so I pitched ec-1118 again and 5/3 I have started fermentation. was the campden and real lemon enough to protect the must from...

Hi. Haven’t been making wine for a while and I’m ready to get back into it. I’m seeing some very inexpensive polypropylene fermenters and I’m not sure about them. A forum search didn’t round up much. Anyone using poly? Any reason not to? Thanks!

Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking,surely i can't look that old?* well .. . . You'll love this one........ My name is mary, and i was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his dds diploma on the...

im kinda new and have some questions about the ageing process. this is my understanding so far. (please correct me if im wrong). during bulk ageing in a carboy with an airlock, there is some oxygen entering and some oxidation that causes the wine to age. then with the wine transferred to a...

this one can be adjusted to fit the team of your choice. After a long and happy life Tom Brady died and went to heaven. God takes him to a modest house with a Patriots flag in the window and tells him this is where U will live for all eternity. Tom walks up the steps to the porch and looks...

Read this out loud: This is this cat This is is cat This is how cat This is to cat This is keep cat This is an cat This is old cat This is fart cat This is busy cat This is for cat This is forty cat This is seconds cat Now go back and read...

a coworker of mine gave me 2 five gallon Great Bear glass jugs. the openings are very narrow. does anyone know what size bung these take? thanks!

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I planted fall raspberries this year and didn't expect to get any this year. looks like i'm going to get about 5lbs. I plan on doing a 2 gal batch using the berry bliss recipe using local honey. honey to 1.09-1.095 5 lbs raspberries d47 yeast tannin pectic enzyme not sure on nutrients...

If I make you breakfast in bed a simple "thank you" is all I need not all this "how did you get in my house" business!

hi, I have 6 gallons of blueberry in the primary. I want to use the slurry to make skeeter pee. could I rack the blueberry to secondary at 1.01, add sugar, water and nutrient to the slurry in the existing primary, wait for the fermentation to pick up again, then add the lemon over the next...

a farmer has 3 daughters. it is Saturday night and they are waiting for their dates. a knock at the door. the farmer answers with his shotgun in hand. farmer:"who are you?" "im Freddy, here to see Betty, we are going out for spaghetti" farmer: "ok, you can go" a second knock at the...

a burglar is robbing a house. he hears a voice. "Jesus is watching U" he turns off his flashlight and waits. decides its all in his head. disconnecting the tv he hears the voice again. "Jesus is watching U" he shines the light in the corner. its a parrot. burglar, "did U say that?"...

a man is walking past the state hospital. he can hear the patients behind the wooden fence chanting "13,13,13" but he cannot see. as he rounds the corner he notices a knot hole. he gets on his tip toes and looks thru the hole when someone pokes him in the eye with a stick. then they start...

a stranger rides into town in the old west. he stops at the saloon and orders a beer. as soon as the bartender gets his beer, someone runs in and yells "big John is coming!" and everyone runs out the door. before the stranger can do anything, a guy 8' tall, 400 lbs rides a bull into the...

Recipe 5/12 4 gal Mott's apple juice 5 lb clover honey caramelized in pressure cooker 5 lb brown sugar 2 tsp yeast nutrient I tsp yeast energizer 2 tsp pectic enzyme 1 tsp tannin 1/4 tsp kmeta 5/13 pitched ec 1118 SG 1.128 I broke my hydrometer when I mixed this and couldn't check...

I have a 4 gal batch of Triple Berry DB cleared and ready to bottle. I added kmeta and sparkloid on 4/15.i'm going to add sorbate and backsweeten then bottle tonight. I don't think I need to add more kmeta but I wanted to check to be sure. thanks! Mike

hi, I'm thinking of doing a bochet/cyser for Christmas. should B done fermenting by the end of April, bulk age for 6 mos, bottle in Nov. then 8 weeks till Christmas. do U think this is long enough aging for a mead to B drinkable? Mike

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I started a 5 gal batch Old Orchard strawberry/kiwi. I added just less than 5 tbsp yeast nutrient. SG 1.12. Pitched 1 pkg Montrachet on 2/14. Took off right away. 2/17 sg 1.082 2/19 sg 1.064 2/21 sg 1.052 2/23 sg 1.052 I think the yeast ran out of nutrient. Reading thru old posts some...