Your best option is to get a glycol chiller. However, glycol chillers can be expensive and if you’re not ready to invest in one, don’t worry. There is another solution. But first, you’ll need to transfer the beer from your conical fermenter to your keg or bottling bucket. After yo...
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to a sterile filter pad that strips wine of all life. Fining occurs when substances are added to a wine to clarify them. Often, winemakers will add egg whites, clay, or other compounds to wine that will help precipitate dead yeast cells and other solids out of a wine. These substances ...
The easiest place to bottle your finished product is in the jugs the cider came in. If you are bottling to give some to friends and family, 2-liter bottles from Pepsi or Coke (or Mt. Dew in our case) make ideal containers. Make sure you wash them out and sterilize them like the 5...
dilute and cool off my very strong ginger water. You can make a big vat of ginger water in a large pot but it will take a while to cool down. YOU MUST LET IT COOL BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE NEXT STEP. Heat will kill your microbes and your ginger beer won’t ferment. No beer for ...
there aren’t any, just to be sure simply add 1/4 tsp or so of yeast nutrient (from a wine store). If the mead starts making bubbles, then it means it’s coming back to life and it’s not ready. But if it stays dead, then you can clarify it and get it ready for bottling....
First, to have nice bubbles, you do not need to over filter/clarify. I have the same centrifuge and it never touches anything I carbonate. If you over clarify you will also strip significant amounts of flavor. A sieve works fine or a separatory funnel if you want to take it a step ...
How to Make Mead (Honey Wine): Mead is super easy to make. And turns out GREAT!! (most of the time) Depending on your Recipe. It can Take as little as a month, years, or even up to a life time for it to ferment. The recipe I will post first is great fo