Recent content by Rayshine.sims

The sorbates are just incase this doesn’t fully work and some yeasts are left behind. About half the head of foam is still up, which is how I normally track how my fermentation is going, but here we are, and i need to get the liquid off the loose dry hops… Ripperoni baloney, it still ought to...

The reason im being so careful is the fact I’m not letting it ferment the full month i would had i not made that stupid hops mistake. I have to rack at half the time cause i dont want green, grassy lawn clipping aromatics and flavors in there (if it hasn’t already started). I’ve read that heat...

Nope, not gonna make it sparkling and i dont think I’ll be backsweetening much, as i used 1 part diet cranberry juice, 1 part apple cider, and honey to supplement the lack of sugars in the diet cran. (made sure that it didnt have any chemicals that would lead to bad tastes or halts in...

How did it go? As someone who is thinking of using canning techniques to kill my yeast/keep my still mead/cider combo, I’d love to hear thoughts. I added a bit of hops (didn’t read up enough, so now i have to figure out how to stop any and all fermentation and rack at 10 days.) Ik im running a...