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@ohioBob, thanks for the reply! Sorry yeah this I knew and mis typed. Only campden tablets for day 1. Is a tosna schedule overkill then? Do you recommend just front loading nutrients and pitching with my yeast? Should I just go with ferm O (and at the amount suggested by the calculator)? Or...

After a few mead runs to gain some basic experience, this beginner is back! FINALLY ramping up for my plum wine, but I'm struggling to finalize a recipe and with a few basic questions. First few points that I've come to understand from reading the forums and now know: - Add sugar in the primary...

I'll give that a try next time thanks! At this point, if I have a similar issue next fall I'll probably look to purchase some proper specialized traps and see if they work, but will exhaust all options first lol

Ya I had three of these traps going with minimal success. Just that time of year here though. At this time there's none around

Resurecting this. Just discovered Magnotta as an option for juice. All the posts for them are a number of years old. Do they still hold up? Looking for good quality must / juice in Ottawa region and only just discovered Magnotta as an option after driving by

Finally an update on my first mead experience. Last weekend I finally bottled my first brewing attempts: An apple cyser (11.3 ABV) and traditional cider (6% ABV). My issue with bottle bombs appears to be completely a non-issue. The cyser is incredibly sweet. This is more my fault as when I...

Music to my ears that it's not super urgent. Re: offgassing, I've got a confession. After learning my lesson I still opted to leave the lids on my buckets with a valve. The fruit flies in my house are just terrible. Each valve has about 5 in the trap alone. I know yeast needs o2 so I make sure...

Alright alright alright. My SG for my cider sitting right at 1.000. My mead is still 1.023. First question then, can I had off racking this till tomorrow? 4 month old has me gassed tonight. The second question, I've got so much "foam" or whatever technical term floating on top. To try to get a...

My answer: more just cuz I can lmao. When covid hit I had grand dreams of moving home and doing a homestead. Burocratic BS took years to get a severance and the lot in my name, and return to office canceled any chance of moving from the city. Still, the idea of actually doing something on the...

RTFM!

God, every time I learn one thing theres 20 more things. You really don't know what you don't know, till you know. Hopefully in 30 years it'll be a cool thing to annually make wine from these plum and apple trees with some experiments on the side, and people would actually look forward to...

I know now never again to question you master yoda. Everything is moving along nicely now that I've figured this out. Added DAP (1g) 48 hours after pitching yeast and again 72hrs. I didn't check last night but the previous night the SG of each batch had gone down by about 0.1. Primary...

First time growing pains continues. You guys will get a kick out of this one. Woke up this morning to a high-school science fair volcano in my kitchen. Rapid offgassing pushed the pulpy foam right up into my bung valves and clogged them right up, effectively creating a bottle bomb. Cleaned...

One of those learning curves I suppose... Of course I have all kinda of food grade buckets etc, but followed all the recipes etc I see online too literally. Great tip for next time thanks. This time around, topping off with a completed cider like strongbow or something is probably my best guess...

Updating to share progress. So far just a few random questions (highlighted bold) but if you have any suggestions or something you would do otherwise please share. Comments and criticism welcome. After collecting my juice I knew I had more than a gallon but not quite sure how much more. I...

Was literally just picking up enzyme when your message came in. How much to add to one gallon must?

Alright, here we go FINALLY. My first mead. Well, as of right now it's only ape juice. Against the recommendation of some in other forums I went ahead and just juiced about 40 lbs of my apples. Process was fine but my juice is more of a must. After processing apples through my juicer I also...

I was actually already creeping both of these (your site is super helpful). I made the assumption though that an apple "wine" was different than a mead. Maybe not? Going for diversity this year as my first season brewing lol. Maybe its literally just bottling that's different?

First-time brewer here. Finally harvesting the apples from our tree in the back yard. Let's get the first question out of the way right off the bat: My tree was hit HARD this year by both cedar rust and apple scab. I had an arborist come look at my tree to confirm this. According to him the...

Thanks for the tip. This actually reminds me that it was your beginner winemaking process on your site that was the first and possibly only time I've seen someone say to cover the primary fermentation bucket with a towel. Everywhere else I look has a lid with an airlock valve. In a short time...