Recent content by hoya

Not sure if this is the right board but here goes. I am a first-time barrel ager with a ten-gallon batch of an Avery Rumpkin clone sitting in a rum/ex-brandy barrel. It's been cranking with little issue since late August but recently I noticed a leak, which seemed to get slightly worse every...

If you have a good enough oxygen setup, then one dose of oxygen should be enough, as long as it is big enough. I have found that 2 minutes at ~5psi gauge from a welding tank is more than sufficient. For a starter, 5 liters is enormous for the batch size you are using, and something I would only...