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I make yearly batches of apple wine using unpasteurized cider from a local Ohio orchard. The orchard keeps the cider refrigerated to just above freezing. Maybe I’ve been lucky but I’ve never found the need to pasteurize it or use Kmeta to kill the native yeast. My recipe is to add some pectic...

The day has come to drag out this old favorite of mine.

With the experience you have I’d suggest finding a local brew/wine shop and getting a 6-gallon bucket of Riesling juice. You might still be able to find some fresh Chilean juice from this Spring‘s harvest. It’s really pretty easy to make a decent Riesling from juice. I usually do a bucket in the...

I'd wager a guess it was Computer Shopper. It was the size of a small city phone book each month with some tech articles but mostly advertisements.

That's a great deal on the Mini Jet. Label Peelers has filters for about $3.50 for a 3 pack. It's probably worth checking but shipping to Western Canada might negate any savings.

This was a real frustration for me as well. I used a piece of Wiremold conduit I had laying around to stabilize it. It's not an elegant solution from an engineering standpoint but it has worked well for a few years and prevented a lot of cussing. Edit: Sorry, Looks like I'm a little late to the...

I just got an email from Luva Bella in Lowellville Ohio saying their remaining juice is 25% off. My carboys are all full but it seems like a good deal if you are in Northeast Ohio or Western PA.

For what it's worth, I just bought a 20 gallon gray vented Brute trash can from Home Depot. The SKU is: FG262000GRAY. It has a production date of 3/22 and does carry the Food Safe & NSF logos on the bottom of the can. (Highlighted in the attached pic for clarity) I also found this statement...

Mine was a 64 Valiant Convertible with a slant 6 and pushbutton automatic trans. It was pretty much identical to but not nearly as nice as this one that I saw at a local cruise-in. Lots of good memories of that old car. I built a Factory Five Cobra replica over twenty years ago but at this...

I started a 3-gallon batch of apple wine from fresh cider a couple of days ago. It’s looking good and fermenting nicely. My wife is making apple sauce today so I’ll have some apple skins available that I could add to the fermenter. I know grape skins make a big difference with red wines. Just...

A friend from work who is familiar with my Skeeter Pee addiction gave me this sweet Skeeter stopper for a retirement gift.

Thank you both. The advice is much appreciated.

I have a carboy of Riesling clearing that I had previously back sweetened. I added potassium sorbate at the time I back sweetened but now my wife feels it needs to be a bit sweeter. Should I add more sorbate when I add sweetener or will the last dose cover it?

That's my plan, I added a couple of cups of sugar and it is delicious. I finally have something to share with my sweet wine friends.:)

Very interesting! When I saw "Ouzo Effect" I figured it was some kind of drunken wives tale but it is indeed a legitimate phenomena. The knowledge here is amazing, thank you all!

Well I’m back to waiting for my Skeeter pee to clear. I wanted to get more lemon flavor so I followed the advice in "this thread" and infused 12 ounces of Everclear with lemon zest and let it sit for a month to absorb the flavor and clear. By that time the Skeeter pee was also crystal clear. I’m...

It will pull 27 inHg pretty easily. That seems to be plenty to do the job. It leaks down to 18 inHg overnight. Use at your own discretion. There are plenty of other threads discussing carboy implosions.

4829 + my 5 = 4834