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Reply edit. All the same. I do believe I used campden tablets. It was quite a while ago. But like I said. Same batch different bottle. No effects. Well. Except the normal alcoholic ones :). Maybe it got infected. Who knows. Either way. Not a fan of it as of this moment. Will try making another...

And by affect I mean effect. Bad autocorrect.

Yes. They roofied it in bottle and snuck it in while it was in my garage lol. I think I might have an affect to it. Drank it over the next two days. Was a 1.5 liter bottle so that's a rather slow drink. And made me sick basically since Tuesday. So I'm going with a bad reaction to something in...

About a pint and a half. It's about 10% abv though. But it still shouldn't be enough to try and put me out like a light. Just weird I guess.

So. I tried an earlier thread on bottled grape juice. People got stuck on what happens after it is unbottled. So my question is. Grape juice. Bottled and using a steam juicer. Gonna work for wine? Is there an age limit(finding stuff from 2000))? I'd like to ferment this stuff

So. I drank some of my year old aged and spiced with cinnamon and cloves cider. And suddenly I want to fall asleep. All day. Anyone else have this reaction? What gives?

Oh yes I might mention. They have a ton of these straight juice bottles. Grapes go in top. Steam. The. Juice comes out bottom. Bottled. Capped and stored. So it's basically the same as getting from the garden and a great deal fresher without preservatives than say welches (which I've seen people...

Actually the bottles are the straight juice. The koolaid comes when they mix it to drink it (1 qt grape juice + 1 packet of koolaid and some sugar and water make a gallon of decent tasting juice). So that's not a problem. I'm just worried about the properties of the juice. Does it lose anything...

So. My parents have plenty of grape vines and every year they bottle some of them using a juicer. They literally have a hundred of these bottles around quart sized. Couple questions. If I attempt to make wine out of these. What sort of concentration do you imagine I'll need (they are juiced with...

My parents have a hive behind their house. I think my next try is a comb from that right after raspberry season....

Experimental really. I have about ten gallons worth. Two started batches and I knew it would take about a year so I split them. Saw some bizarre ideas. Thought. Why not? Now perhaps I should have had some more mead under my belt before I tried weird stuff but I'm inpatient. Hence smaller...

I guess a good question is. Should I expect the nasty flavor/smell at an early stage and then later it'll be fine or is this representative of something far worse?

Looking at my notes. 1.100 and 1.010 on this one. Haven't checked fg on the others yet

Started two meads in January that I split into four types. A metheglin. A blackberry essence mead. A green tea with Ginger mead. And a coffee mead. I bottled my green tea this last weekend and I had a cold so I couldn't smell or taste it. So I had my wife do so. This after she just praised my...

Is my new skeet pee (with lime) doomed. Went off to wash my fermenter and forgot to stir my sugar on the stove. Got some carmelized sugar and a brown color. Didnt have more sugar available so I used it. It's a ten dollar recipe so it's not a huge loss but do you think it's flavor is going to be...