Recent content by SacredBrew

We're selling a 30 Plate and Frame Wine filter from Italy - Model: Jolly 30 (Toscana Enologica Mori) We are asking $2000 or Best Offer. See photos. We're Locate in Barnard, VT. You can contact us at [email protected]. We have never used this wine filter as we don't filter our wines, but...

Hello, I bottled a mead last night after adding 1 pound of priming honey to a 10 gallon batch of mead. It's a low alcohol mead being at about 6-7% alcohol. I was using the guiding principle of about 10 g/l priming sugar for a mid range sparkle. This I figured was about 12 g/l honey. This...

Hi All I've got a bunch of barrels of cider I need to bottle up. I've bottled barrels enough times to be tempted by the multi-spout bottle fillers online. In looking around, it seems the price range is from $368-$475 for a 3 spout wine bottle filler. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything...

Hello, I make cider in bourbon barrels old and new. I have a couple of barrels that have a flavor that is not horrible but are slightly off flavors. In one of the barrels I made a mead. . Then I bottled the mead and rinsed the barrel out and fermented cider in it and the cider contains...

Hello, I would like to start putting up bottles of sparkling hard cider in champagne bottles without forcing co2 into the bottles. I have heard of putting a couple raisons in a champagne bottle to get a slightly bubbling cider. What are some other methods of getting champagne like...

Hello, I'm looking for a champagne corker for a home-small scale commercial scale cider/mead maker. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on what type of champagne corker I should purchase. I would love to be it used. .. Any ideas of used champagne corkers? cheers, jon

Hello, I'm looking for a champagne corker for a home-small scale commercial scale cider/mead maker. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on what type of champagne corker I should purchase. I would love to be it used. .. Any ideas of used champagne corkers? cheers, jon

Hello, I'm a home/becoming commercial scale cider and mead producer and I have a bunch of oak barrels filled with cider. I basically am dealing with bourbon barrels (53 gallons). So I need to be able to pump cider up from the basement into the garage. I want to buy a pump that wont break...

Hello, I'm a home/becoming commercial scale cider and mead producer and I have a bunch of oak barrels filled with cider. I basically am dealing with bourbon barrels (53 gallons). So I need to be able to pump cider up from the basement into the garage. I want to buy a pump that wont break...

Hello, I'm a home/becoming commercial scale cider and mead producer and I have a bunch of oak barrels filled with cider. I basically am dealing with bourbon barrels (53 gallons). So I need to be able to pump cider up from the basement into the garage. I want to buy a pump that wont break...

Hello, I've got three carboys that I would like to free up. They read at 1.008, 1.01 and 1.014. I'm going to put them into 5 gallon cornelius kegs. Will this produce to much carbonation considering their current SG readings? Aslo, I will be bottling some of this cider. What is the...

I would like to use residual sugar in the still fermenting cider as the priming sugar for bottling. Does anyone know what specific gravity I should bottle the cider at for a finished cider that is dry to just-barely sweet? Obviously I want to avoid bottle bombs, but I want to use the sugar in...

I've got a 50 gallon bourbon barrel of cider with a thin film of something not good. It tastes fine and the growth is just on the top surface. So I plan on transferring the cider into either pony kegs or carboys. The cider began with a potential alcohol of 6%. It now sits with an SG of...

Shooter, I was just working off a recipe that said to let it ferment for a week and then transition it to Secondary. Would you not recommend this in the future? I would have gladly left the brews a bubbling without bothering with secondary. When would you utilize secondary fermentation?

Dam, I didn't realize how fast and engaged these forums are. I'm sorry for posting the same comment in more than one forum. Will not do that again. Thanks for the responses ya'll.