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The best bit is: YOU WERE WRONG! Here are a couple of quotes from the bible of home wine makers: FIRST STEPS IN WINEMAKING by C. J. J. BERRY. Indeed, these are the first two paragraphs after the preface. I could -- and was going to, but I got bored with the cuttin' 'n pastin' -- quote...

If I ever started brewing, that might make it worth tolerating his "way"; but it would never make it worth defending. If someone is handing out bad or mangled advice it should be countered.... by shouting (if he must) at the persons so doing; not the newbie asking a question. That's me done...

Did I cause myself to be ostracized because I stood up to the bully?

Not sweet. Gritty, maybe a little chalky. They do crush quite easily to a powder, and under a magnifying glass they are white inside, the red/black/rust coloration is only on the surface. I used Young's Super Yeast compound that in addition to the yeast contains nutrient (unspecifed) and...

I've just transferred my apple wine from the FV to demijohns and when cleaning the fv, I found the red & black "sand grains" shown in the following picture: http://imagebin.org/290966 (*) Since none of the ingredients -- apples, lemon rind and juice, pectolaise, sugar, water, yeast, nutrient...

It's hard to read it any other way, but I'll take you at your word. You said: "Ideally you would transfer to under airlock once your yeast has switched from actively reproducing to making alcohol." My <strike>understanding</strike> impression from what I've read here and elsewhere is that...

How to respond to that. I did read your post in its entirely. I even attempted to correct for my apparent misuse of the (an)aerobic terminology by re-phrasing and re-targeting my question to address the issue I'm trying to get to grips with. (Though, the most common use of those two words is...

Indeed. Except I'm doing wine not beer; and I've no idea what, if any difference that makes?

Okay. Here's my dilemma. I'm currently making a 10ltr batch of Apple wine from 6kilos of mixed apples. I looked up and read a dozen of more recipes and kinda miix'n'matched between them. But, one recipe says: "Cover, set in a warm place for 24 hours, then add yeast and nutrient, cover, and...

How do you decide when to switch from aerobic to anaerobic fermentation? Thanks, Buk.

You're probably right. I'd drew a few diagrams to look at the angles involved and to get the flat bottom to the point where the slime might migrate down, say 45° (reading around, even SS concicals with 45° cones the trub tends to stick to the slope), my effectively square fermenter (360mm...

"pb"?

I was just reading about conical fermenters and a description that they tend to concentrate the active yeast in the center of the cone producing a localised hot-spot through the exothermic processes, causing an updraft, that produces a toroidal circulation within the must. I have a 28 ltr...

When I saw the yeast I'd added yesterday had done nothing at all by this morning I looked on-line and found Jack Keller's yeast starter method. I started a starter using 1/2 cup of grape juice, a teaspoon of sugar and a heaped teaspoon of the Young's yeast mix. It went off like a rocket. After...

Hi, Having had a lucky experience with making some wine the wrong way, yesterday I brewed up 8 litres of must using a whole fresh pineapple, 200 gms of raisons, a tablespoon of lemon juice and 1.8 kilos of sugar. I sprinkled 1 1/2 heaped teaspoonsful of Young's super wine yeast compound onto...

Okay. Here it is: My wife brought a bunch of bags of cheap granulated sugar. Turned out the probable reason it was so cheap was cos it was slightly damp. Perfectly good and clean, but it just kept clogging up the sugar shaker which made it a pain to use for tea/coffee. So, I thought I'd try my...

Okay. Sh*t happens. Was what you remember of the post of interest to anyone here? If so, can you point me at the (an) appropriate section? Buk. (As luck would have it I found the text of the post hanging around in my browser cache; so if anyone would be interested?)

I made my first post here last night and this morning received notification that it had been approved, If you want to view the topic, click the following link: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=49894&e=0 but when I try to follow the link to that post I get: "The requested topic does not...