Recent content by Hell_Fish

How did any of the brews come out?

I have never tried a lemon wine, but lemon pairs very well with basil.

I have been thinking about this a lot. I have a ton of mesquite on my land. I made jelly last year and it reminded me of honey. Im thinking about trying a honey brown recipe minus the honey and include a mesquite syrup.

So far its still too young to tell, but it tasted like jet fuel. :)

Saturday I will try one out. I made this batch for a party that is Sunday, but the directions said to bottle for 3 weeks and I will only be giving it 2 weeks, but I did keep it in the seconary about 1.5 longer because it was still working at the orginal suggested bottling time.

Just bottled mine today. It is a little hoppy, but not to a IPA level. Tasted good without carbing. :)

You could just use sugar. On the cucumbers, make sure not to use the seeds or skin, it will make it bitter.

Cucumber is paired well with mint.

Wouldn't reusing plastic soda bottles work better that screw top glass or mason jars?

The 2 gallons are/were seperated into 2 1 gallon glass containers. I will double check the hose, but I have only had this hose for about a month. Things can happen, so I can check. Although, when I cleaned the hose with water, it kept a siphon in water just fine.

My cider has been in the primary for 2 weeks. I have 2 gallons going. When I went to rack the first jug, the siphon hose kept filling with carbonation and killed the flow to the secondary. Although the fermentation appeared to slow drastically, it seems to be going just fine. I did complete the...

Seems I have the wrong hydro. Its for liquids at 155 deg. The guys at AHS helped a bunch. You guys did too. Thank you.

Looks to be at 1.034 now. Still high, so not complete. I also tested with tap water I am at 1.015, so my hydrometer seems to be a bit off.

I found one of Revvy's posts on the subject now. :) Noob question, should I not worry about breaking the buckets seal and allowing O2 in? I would guess, pop the top, get the reading as fast as possible and reseal and forget it.

Will do. Thanks