Good to hear a positive opinion - thanks. It isn't that strong. Like I said, after the magnet goes through the shelf, it has just the right amount of resistance to hold the pump in place. I'll be trying it out!
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I have some neodymium magnets that I want to use to hold my two March pumps in place on my stainless steel work table/brew stand. I tested this out with the pumps OFF and it seems to work well in terms of (1) preventing the pump from sliding/turning and (2) preventing it from being "front...
Been a while since we brewed and this morning a whirlfloc tablet got confused as a campden tablet and added to the strike water.
We can’t think of any negative side effects - can you?
Thanks for the help everyone. The wine was perfectly clear, completely degassed (I still don't remember if I did it originally back in 2016 or not, though), and tastes great. A wonderfully dry-but-not-too-dry wine with an amazing stone fruit taste. Onto batch #3!
Now I just need a wine rack...
Thank you! Can I ask what you do in lieu of using those finings? I’m sure it depends, but if a “rule of thumb” would be to condition a wine for 3 months then I have no problem doing that.
Thanks. I hadn't really considered the extra yeast in there. Think that could be a problem?
And if it's not fully degassed, is there any reason I shouldn't just do that in a bottling bucket?
In November (2016), I started a wine kit from Cellar Craft - their showcase series Rosso Fortissimo. It was my second batch of wine. The first one turned out great, same series.
The directions of the kit are roughly as follows:
Day 1: Mix/primary fermentation until day 12 at appropriate...
Don't interpret this so literally. He put "stolen" in quotation marks because the source of a lot of techniques, and hell, styles originated on a homebrew scale.
Continuous hopping
New England IPA
... just to name the first couple that come to mind. His real point was that new ideas...
I'm hearing Band-Aid and also cidery taste.
1. Cidery is often caused by using too much sugar in your brew. What's your priming sugar procedure? Are you using any corn sugar in your recipe at all? I'm not sure what would cause the other off-flavor (Band-Aid) if this was the problem, but it...
I have a bottling wand "with spring." It still leaks a little - but it's just a few drops here and there.
I use a deep cookie sheet underneath the wand in case a few drops keep coming out when I'm not filling a bottle to catch any runoff. It's probably about 3 oz or so at the end of...
I'm interested in that Blichmann product but I don't have one.
I follow Brulosophy too, generally.
50 psi for 24 hours, purge, serving pressure. Pretty reliable carb within 48 hours.
Yes, $1 per gallon "on sale" (it's always on sale) for distilled water. I'm not sure where you live, but there are no RO filling stations or anything like that here. It may be a NY thing. I may continue to buy it, but I'll probably give it a shot without the distilled for the next few batches.