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Thanks for the input guys.

I bottled mine still last weekend and a friend of mine who is a bit of a wine enthusiast sat down to give my apfelwen a try. He said he notes distinct yeasty flavor in it. I cannot taste it, but I do not doubt him. How can I avoid this in the future? I followed Edwort's recipe exactly and bulk...

So, what affordable device do you guys recommend for putting a vacuum on a carboy for degassing?

So at bottling time, is it simply a matter of making sure it's degassed and then bottling it if you want it still or must you add a bunch of other chemicals and crap that my lhbs tried to sell me that are commonly used with wine kits?

I mean whisk in a generic sense. I used a paddle-type arrangement made of a plastic coat hanger per a video I saw on the forum here.

I had the nozzle on my bottling bucket crack and start trickling apfelwein onto my floor just as I got ready to hook up my racking cane today. I rushed the wine and bucket to a clean and sanitized bucket I had handy. I had to briskly dump the wine into the bucket to save the last 4.5 gallons of...

Do you have to degas this stuff like wine to put it up in in wine bottles?

Mine came in at 1.059 OG. Yours sounds fine.:mug: Now for my question to you guys; Does this stuff need to be degassed if I plan to put it up in corked wine bottles after 4 weeks?

How much enzyme for 5 gallons?

My wife volunteered to get me some non-preservative apple juice today for my first attempt at apfelwein based on the recipe in the sticky. I just got home and note that she bought organic apple juice with no preservatives, but also unfiltered. It is cloudy in the jugs. Will the stuff making...

Yep. I have a glass cooktop. I will see if I can find a link to the pot I bought and post it here. I bought the "Alpha Heavy Gage 24 quart stainless steel stockpot with glass lid" for $54.99 delivered from amazon.com. It works flawlessly on my glass cooktop with no boil overs.

I had your problem with my cheap lhbs pot. I then bought a nice pot on amazon. All is fine now.

Hempeweizen

Looks like 1.011 to me. I'd bottle.

There's a hippy joke in there somewhere :fro:

I had the opposite experience with my bitter. I cracked one at three days just to sample the flavor and found it carbed nicely for a bitter.

Ask the chemist if the yeast you use in your bread making machine poses a risk. It sounds like he has been educated beyond the limits of his own intellect.

Care to share your thoughts?

Agreed. I try to support my local guys when I can.

I am surprised folks are having trouble. I am new to brewing myself and have had no trouble at all with my two hand capper. I set the bottle down on my counter, throw a lid on it and the drop the capper and squeeze smoothly. Caps effortlesly every time through 10 gallons thus far.