I never thought about the fact that the Wine may not carbonate in the bottles due to the extra stuff I added. I 100% did not plan this out, i had the day off of work and I hadn't brewed anything in almost 6 months and after reading about some slurm on here I wanted to experiment with stuff in...
Well sorta newbie things. So I was bored a month or so ago (February 10th) and decided to fill my Mr. Beer LBK's with Juice, throw some yeast in them and see what happens.
So I went to my local grocery store (Giant) and picked up the following non preservative Juice:
Ocean Spray Cranberry...
I will be tasting mine tonight but i primed my 5 Gallon batch (think it came out to close to 4 1/4) with 1 can of frozen apple concentrate. I also carbed these in my PET bottles since i didn't want to make any bombs by accident. Will report back with how it tastes tonight. If good, I may make...
The original recipe on the front page. I also might've pitched the yeast too early (pitched around 72 degrees). Will drink this batch as it's not horrible and who knows, maybe it was just that one bottle since when I was drinking the tests they were all good.
Got them from Trader Joes. Talking to a buddy of mine he's thinking it may have been the temps it was sitting at. They were sitting at around 70ish degrees in the primary but it definitely got hot in my basement one weekend when i was away when it was sitting in my secondary (75ish) and while it...
So after sitting for a while i just cracked open the first one and it's not bad, but this may sound weird but the first taste i get when it enters my mouth is Bondo, but it's brief and i can't figure out why. Infection maybe?
Brewed this up a couple weeks ago. Just moved it into the Tertiary. Tasted the sample and Man this stuff was good. Original gravity reading wasn't good as i didn't have a thief. I have a thief now and took a gravity reading when moving to the tertiary and came up at 1.012. Can't wait to try this...
Hello All,
Just wanted to introduce myself, i'm Jae and i'm currently in Upper Darby. I purchased a MR. Beer kit several years ago and had never used it until I moved into my current place and after just bottling my first brew last night the home brewing bug has bit me. A buddy of mine that...