Good morning Merry down! I could not agree more. I too have been making wine for years and Mead and even currently have some maple syrup wine in the primary. I have about 30 gallons of Frozen concentrated juice wines made up for my 2 tap kegerator that make a pretty good drink for the summer...
I just ordered my first extract kit the dead ringer IPA. I've been a Mead and cider Brewer and getting tired of drinking the stuff and find myself still buying my favorite beer Alpha Centauri which has an IBU of 100. I think if I can match something close I will be happy. Drinking IPA 4 years I...
I know d47 yeast ferments between 59 and 68 degrees. I have that little chest freezer aforementioned with my inkbird controller set at 64 degrees and seems to be working fine. By the time June 3rd rolls around it will have been 3 weeks of fermenting and the gravity should be getting down pretty...
Well I took it out of my fermenter bucket and put it in my 3 gallon glass carboy yesterday took all the Lee's with it because I'm using d47 yeast and of course I got a little taster of it sucking on the siphon hose and I am impressed. Kind of surprised at the color kind of an orange juice color...
Well the first thing I discovered is that one part syrup in two parts water equal right at 1.116 just a little over 15 percent ABV so that's what I went with and made a 3 gallon batch. I added one teaspoon of dap and two teaspoons of yeast Energizer and 1 teaspoon peptic enzyme not sure if I...
My cousin has a Sugar Shack and sent me 5 gallons of maple syrup that he made using the last Sapp he pulled from the tree. Yep maple syrup wine is what I'm going to try. The first thing I'm going to have to discover is how much syrup per water ratio is going to give me my starting gravity at...