It’s Beer Thirty FReepers! Time For The Homebrewing / Wine Making Thread #2 June 8,2012

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[TexasTransplant]

Never made either ,, beer or wine ... for a total neophyte wich one is harder to accomplish and next ... which one is more expensive

TT

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I typically leave my beer in the primary for two weeks and do a two to three week secondary/mellowing.

That's about what I do as well. I used to skip secondary, but I discovered that if you get the beer off the sediment it will end up much clearer.

[theirjustdue]

Been making wine for 43 years. Please add me to the list.

[Oratam]

Cheers!

[djf]

Anybody having some good tips about prepping/sterilizing bottles, I’m all ears!
I have about 200 Grolsch bottles I use, but it’s truly a pain to prep enuff for 5G of beer or cider...

Mt dark ale still has a significant sulfur odor (odor, not taste). As always, time might fix it.

My cider which was very sour when I first bottled it has mellowed alot!

Luv that hard cider! Probably the easiest thing to brew there is!

Need to get more Wyeast 1968 ale yeast, though... maybe later today.

[Red_Devil 232]

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[theEnemywithin]

Please add me to your home brew list.

[Red_Devil 232]

I rinse each bottle as soon as it is empty and store in a closed box. Then all I need to do is sterilize them when bottling. I have read that a lot of people use their dishwasher, the heat cycle of a dishwasher will do the sterilization.

I like to use a sanitizer solution (Star San)and this device (Bottle Rinser (Sulfiter). Then take a bottle, push it down on the white shaft, and the solution is injected into the bottle. drop your caps in the solution reservoir. I can do 55 bottles in about 10 min.

I use the dishwasher as a drying rack. Then store the bottles in covered box until bottling day.

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[pigsmith]

Please add me to your ping list, too. Thanks!

[Red_Devil 232]

Wine is probably the easiest and cheapest. any sterilized gallon container, yeast, sugar, balloon, frozen juice concentrate. The balloon is placed over the container opening and acts as an air lock. Wait six weeks.

[Red_Devil 232]

What type of yeast did you use for your dark ale? Many lager yeast strains produce noticeable amounts of hydrogen sulfide during fermentation. Cold bottle conditioning should cure it.

[Red_Devil 232]

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[willyd]

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