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Has anyone used those 5 gallon water bottles for water coolers as a secondary fermenter? Does anyone know of any drawbacks to this practice?
...to this point yet, but was thinking about the second fermenting stage after you transfer your must to the carboy. Since I have never done this before I don't know what to expect as far as liquid...
The wine kit I purchased only came with one carboy and one primary fermening bucket. How do I rack multiple times? Do I go back to the bucket - clean the carboy - then return back to the carboy?
I have a thin white film on top of wine in the carboy? What is it? Is it bad?
...m. You could either use a large graduated cylinder to fill to 5 or 6 gallons and mark the outside of the carboy(s), or simply weigh the carboy, both empty and full, and calculate the volume from the ...
I am making 3 gallons of apple wine, I only have a 5 gallon carboy... will the space affect my wine or will the airlock help it keep out any oxygen
I was told to make sure the carboy is always topped off just below the airlock.
My fermentatino is finished so I racked the wine. Can I top off the carboy with grape juice or is it too late? How m...
Can I use a carboy to make vinegar or is the neck to narrow to allow it to breath properly? I've been using 1 gallon sun tea jars, but am about to make mayhaw wine so I can make mayhaw vinegar.
I want to mature wine in a 5 liter glass carboy. But I do not get new ones near my place of residence, instead plenty of used glass carboys are available in which unknown Chemicals or Reagents were tr...
Why would you put the free run juice in one carboy and the juice from the press in another carboy?
In regards to using oak, we can get the tea sized bags.
How much oak? 1 tsp per 5 or 6 gallon c...
...ould say something as sensitive as wine i would not put in plastic beyond the early pri.i juggle my glass carboy and some plastic just to transfer and clean out the carboy then back in ....
Are you assuming that the carboy will be opened a few times? I do try to age in carboys of an appropriate size to allow me to leave only an inch or so of headspace in the neck, but there have been ti...
.... I do not have access to campden tablets or potassium sorbate. So, I guess I just need to keep in in the carboy which I have done as of yesterday. How long do you think I should keep in the carboy? A...
...movement in water ,like say 30 days.
Do you need the air lock or could you just use a solid bung to seal carboy? Does the airlock still serve a purpose after the CO2 is no longer pressurizing carboy?...
Desert The bucket is not a carboy but is a fermenter. You need to find something to use as a carboy. Most juice comes in npt1 plastic bottles which can be used for that porpouse. Just be careful they ...
...ipe. The initial hydrometer reading was around 1.098 or approx.
13% alcohol. I made it directly in the carboy and covered it with a paper towel as per the instructions. The fermentation went fine ...
... is called a primary fermenter, you stir daily for 7 days, then strain/rack off the juice into your glass carboy. It needs oxygen for the yeast to convert the sugar to alcohol the first week. After th...
...wine for the first time a 8 days ago, have finished the primary fermentation and siphoned it into a glass carboy.
I know there are several theories as to when you can bottle it, and I would like to d...
Actually that is exactly where you want the carboy to be, just below the neck of the thing where only a couple inches are exposed. Only problem you may run into is a foam over so don't go too too...
...llon of my wine. I just went down to take a look. For the batch of watermelon/ elderberry I had a 5 gal carboy and a gallon carboy half full that I was going to use to top off when racking. The sme...
...lso just a bit of an update I just racked it from the primary fermenter to my brand spanking new 1 gallon carboys, I ended up getting 1 full carboy and one that is about a third full. Should I find a ...
I assume you mean that you want to get the wine off of the sediment at the bottom of the carboy, which is called the lees. To do this you need to "rack" it. This is a simple process where yo...
DamageInc. I have a 5 gallon carboy with the welchs pure concord grape,and that is doing very good also,bubbling away.Those little yeast are sure working away at that one also.When I looked in the car...
... and water to make 5Gal. I pasterized (simmered) with 1 constant coment tea bag. I pitched it when the carboy cooled to room temp. I have fermentation, but it is so slow. I shook the vial vigorou...
... them stay for 8 days on the skins and then I pressed them. Due to low temperatures I moved one 50L glass carboy to my basement but left one smaller carboy in garage for one more day when temperature ...
...a lot better! It is clearing so much better. I had a little left over since I put the wine in a smaller carboy. I filled a couple of mason jars for experimenting and ended up pouring out some. It ...
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