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So the strawberry wine turned out ok this time. Needs to age from what I hear. However, I used the lees to start some skeeter pee(lemon wine). It is excellent, strawberry lemonade @12% ABV. My fear is I won't have any left when summer comes, time to start some more soon I guess

I went to the doctor yesterday for a routine check up. He walked in and i asked," Doctor, why do you have a rectal thermometer behind your ear?"

He replied," Damn, i guess some asshole's got my ink pen."

+1 for hitting up the bakery, I'm cheap, I ask every time I'm in the grocery, makes me feel good the day they get through that bucket of white icing. sometimes they aren't cleaned, its a bonus, free sugar too:)

I don't think I've ever used the Microsoft updates. I always just use a free anti-virus like the mentioned above. The main switch to Windows 7 is for businesses, for a personal PC, XP works great, they've figured out the bugs, like rad said, private vendors will support it until its obsolete. I agre...

Very nice, I'll check them out. Not sure if we'll have time, might have to add an extra day:) Thanks

Thanks for the input. I will definitely call ahead when it gets closer, planning for the end of April. Hoping it won't be too cold to camp. Also looks like the place offers several different rafting options from really easy to class V rapids. They also offer a 3 zip line courses. @ Woodshed, I like ...

Hey, wondering if any WV members could tell me about the New River Gorge(Lansing WV?) and if it worth the long drive for a few days rafting and hiking in late April? Thanks in advance

I really think the best way is just to do another run as odin suggested, this sorta thing is his forte.

In my AG's I always get a bit of stuff to come out, kinda brown. I attribute it to puking, no biggie if you are going to run it again. I run them really fast, if I slow down it doesn't happen nar as much

I'm thinking have a length of pipe coming vertically from your thumper or boiler with a butterfly valve underneath to allow the botanicals etc. to drop down. Just have to turn it. Have the top of the pipe have a screw top or something so you could easily add the things and clean it

So I went ahead and strained the juice out, got almost 5 gallons from the 6 gallons of berries, and pastuerized it very slowly, then quickly cooled it. I made sure to get more oxygen in it this time and I added some more pectolase as well as nutrients and a small bit of yeast energizer. I made a hal...

heartcut wrote:My RTD converter does Fahrenheit or Centipede.

Damn, it has centipede? How many legs is freezing?
Most things now days have both, I had a scale that had troy ounces on it. Not sure where this is used.

F and C??? Kelvin is where its at, ha. They are teaching children both metric and us measurements in schools these days. My sons homework confuses the shit outta my wife lol. She doesn't know how many oz are in a pint, quart etc, and no idea about liters. I think they both have their advantages as f...

They make good points. I'm a cheap bastard too but if you plan to build something better in the future you'll need to solder, so you'll have to buy(or borrow) it at some point. You can find a kit at the hardware store for like 30 bucks, probably online cheaper.. If you still don't want to, you can u...

I used the zip ties but some of them broke. I replaced with scrap wire I took the plastic off, put them through some holes in the side of the bucket around the worm and twisted em good and put on a wire nut. Caulked up the holes. No problems other than cosmetic, as it doesn't look "professional...

Very nice... My guess on the tree is some type of oak(bur maybe??) but hard to tell without the leaves

My son has one he made from PVC, I say made but he really just painted it. It was a really fun and inexpensive project.

Thanks for the info. I decided to just start over with a better method so I've got 20 lbs of berries in buckets with pectic enzyme right now. Going to use Campden tabs instead of heating this time. I'm going to run the spoiled batch through the still next week.

tcowdrey wrote:

MadMasher wrote:+1 PP
Looks like the website is being run by the people at Brewhaus.
They may need an HD Forum lobbyist too.

Does the HD forum have a lobbyist? I would love to talk with him/her. Thanks
Tom

I meant you might need a lobbyist to convince HD forum users to join your effort.

Here's my banana experience http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 38&t=45536 It took a lot (240 or so) of bananas just to get 2 quarts of true (not sugar head) brandy @100 proof

+1 PP
Looks like the website is being run by the people at Brewhaus.
They may need an HD Forum lobbyist too.

A good article on bees i recently read, thought yall might find interesting, maybe not. http://www.kentuckyliving.com/life-in-k ... ee-friends
I'm not allow to have them, wife says theys dangerous.....

This one debuted on the Andy Griffith Show. Great song if you like bluegrass, reminds me of my childhood. Dooley - The Darlings (Dillards) Dooley was a good old man He lived below the mill Dooley had two daughters and a forty gallon still One gal watched the boiler the other watched the spout Mama c...

which one run?

Happy St Patrick's Day!! Here's to the Irish settlers in the Appalachia that bought with them their whiskey stills, knowledge of fermenting, and love of drinking. Where would we be without you. And for the fellow HDer's -- May you have a long life and a merry one A quick death and an easy one A pret...

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =1&t=23967Here's a similar thread, might help you some. I tried to do it once with some strawberry stuff. Burned to shit and ruined it, had to scrub the hell out of my boiler too.
Also planned to say the stirring part, Tater beat me to it.

Guitar, bass and some drums but pretty limited now with chiilens. They just want to turn the tuning keys and tell me my amp is too loud. I can play blues scale on a piano but only in C haha. The hard part of the digi for me was circular breathing. Never could get the hang of it. My friend is big int...

Thanks for the link. I've read some stuff on there before. I'll try to sort through it when I get a chance, I'm sure the answer is out there somewhere. It might be to scrap it and start over. I've got 50 more lbs of berries.

Looks like it might be a bust. The wine has a sulphur problem and I'm not really sure how to get rid of it. I tried racking it a few times and adding some air as well as pouring it through copper. I read adding some hydrogen peroxide could help? I'm not willing to use copper sulfate, i'm worried to ...

Something like .85/quart after cuts for water and electric costs. Rest of the cost depends on what you pay for the ingredients.