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Still too murky to taste. Prior batch tasted pretty good but did not clear real well but maybe it just needed more racking

I've noticed that I get a ton of sediment after malolactic fermentation. Even more than first racking. And even after the next racking. Is this common?

I did some searching, but not finding... I have some Alexander's Wheat LME, and some Munton's Amber (LME) and I'm looking for a recipe, some hops and suggestions for steeping grains, to make some beer this weekend. Any recipes welcomed and appreciated. thank you.

I agree with TJ. I have a crusher and press and love the process. However, i also think getting a juice bucket is a nice easy way to take the first step and you can expand things from there.

I've just begun making wine, but so far the wine I've made from grapes seems a little more robust than the wine I've made from juice buckets. That said, the juice buckets are much less work and are really inexpensive, and I've liked the wine. These 6 gallon buckets run around $45 and at $1.50 a...

cuinrearview: You totally get it. Sometimes it's not about making the best beer, it's just about all that other important stuff, and hopefully it still gets you drunk

Thanks. What kind of ABV do you get?

any particular extract? Why the mix of Liquid and Dried?

Plus-5. 14,080.

I've been to Keystone Home Brew. I will check on the wine filtering rental. Great idea; thanks again

By the way, at least this happened the SECOND time we made wine, not the first! Also, I went out and got another 100 pounds of grapes so we could erase the memory!

Could we pass the wine through a cheesecloth or something? By the way, when the carboy cracked some wine leaked out. So it's not out of the question that glass is somewhere. I'll check out the filtering idea though, thanks!

My friend and I made 15 gallons of wine from about 200 pounds of California grapes. Tragically, the 54 liter demi-john cracked while he and his wife were carrying it down the stairs to the basement. We racked about half of it into a new container. My question is, when we rack this wine months...

I bought a $140 kit. Works out to what, $5 a bottle? Wine is good.

If it makes you feel any better, I did the same freaking thing tonight. I should have been reading HBT!! SWMBO was helping me bottle and was tilting the bottlling bucket, and said, what's this at the bottom of the bucket, is this yeast? No, the yeast is in the carboy. Oh shoot! It's sugar, I...