Yeah, it’s a wine for the girlfriend and I wanted to back sweeten it a bit, it’s just in the keg for simplicity’s sake before I bottle it lol

Appreciate the tip! I’ll have to give it a shot, are there any particular red wine yeasts you like?

That’s actually on my list of stuff to try! I want to make a white wine they tastes like a red wine. I was thinking of using activated charcoal but I think that might remove all the flavors, so it might end up being a brandy that’s then watered back down into wine level strength. It’s lower on the list of dumb stuff to try, but definitely there lol

Probably! I know there’s stuff like gelatin fining and cold crashing as well, I just wanted to try something new and I’m pleased with the results lol

I imagine it should be fine for the filter material and the plastic that it goes into. I pasteurized in my keg at 68 Celsius for an hour by tossing it into my electric boiling pot. I was expecting the glue on it to melt but it held up just fine. The plastic housing of my filter is also pretty thick, though I haven’t heated it up yet but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work!

This is my setup, it’s basically an in line/whole house water filter that accepts 10 inch filters. I connected two posts that go onto the liquid line of a Cornelius keg. I then use co2 to basically transfer it between the kegs and through the filter. Over all I think I paid like $40 USD for this set up, and the replacement filters are $5 or so.

Appreciate it! I will say I’m also super weird, it’s why I wanted to try pasteurizing this wine in one of my beer kegs vs adding stuff to kill the fermentation before backsweetening. Typically I when I make a beverage I try doing things not by the book, it also helps that I don’t mind having hazy beverages, I just turned a house water filter into a fermentation filter with some random fittings and dreams for shits and giggles and that’s definitely the vibe I take with all my brewing lol

Yeah, to make things more equal here is that wine post filtering held up to the same light as the original image as of a few minutes ago. I don’t think there was any other filtration that happened with it since I kegged it since it’s been sitting in a warm keg in storage after filtration and backsweetening

Trust me it gets worse! I didn’t think to take a light up directly to the unfiltered product, but here you can get an idea of how bad it was pre filter. I imagine the haziness is from the pectin of the mariad of berries I used to make this wine

Definitely not. I sliced 50 lemons up and fermented just those (everything included) with 12 pounds of sugar or so and the resulting wine was 9%. I didn’t even bother balancing the ph or anything either.

Nothing wrong with liking what you like! And the only distilled beverage my gf likes is gin, which I’m sure means at some point I’ll get a “hey honey you should try making gin” thrown my way lol

Yeah that sounds about right lol. Any time I hear someone say “you can’t ferment x and have it be drinkable” I go out of my way to try and ferment it. I heard that about watermelon and the watermelon wine I made turned out great, and distilling it to moonshine made the best watermelon brandy I’ve ever had (every commercial one I tried has the artificial watermelon taste). I’ve also made milk wine. Maybe I am a mad scientist…

It would depend on how lazy I was. For the fruits I’d heat them to 158F (70C) for 15 minutes while stirring constantly. But I’ve also been completely lazy and dumped in the blueberries without treating them in any other way besides freezing them. Since it’s in secondary and I tend to make higher abv beers I’m sure even that was most likely over kill. And it depends, my favorite is my chocolate hot pepper imperial stout, but my black berry Belgian triple was also really good. I think the only one I wasn’t a fan of was the kiwi, but I think it’s because I added too little to my beer to impart a significant taste, or I didn’t do the right base beer (I think a sour kiwi beer would be good but I haven’t made fermented beer in a while)

Over all, I recommend just playing around! I’ve made some abominations of fermented beverages (whiskey made from only hot Cheetos) sometimes it’s just more fun to experiment and see what you get!

All the time! (Back when I was doing extract brews as well) typically I would use the lighter dry malt extracts when doing so. But at the end of the day using extracts only limits some of the different grain flavors you can get (and that’s if you don’t do a small muslin bag with grains for the first bit of heating the extract)

Things I’ve added that I can remember off the top of my head. In Secondary: vanilla beans, coffee beans, peaches, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, kiwi, ginger, cinnamon sticks. Making a tincture: Cacao Nibs, habanero peppers, Carolina reaper peppers, vanilla bean

For the expensive trial and error part, what id do when I wasn’t sure what fruits I’d want to use I’d brew 5 gallons of my base beer, and split it into 5 different fermenters and add whatever I was feeling into each then compare what I like most once it’s done in secondary.

Yup. I used Libra in college but getting the formatting right took longer than writing my papers. If I had to pay for a subscription to office I wouldn’t, and I don’t, I just prefARR’ my office apps.

I do sim racing and flight simming, while not VR exclusive games, once you try it in VR you can’t go back. Besides that, walkabout mini golf is probably one of my favorites, blade and sorcery, hotdogs horseshoes hand grenades (though, not much of a story to that one), vertigo 2, Boneworks, there’s plenty of great games for VR, and that’s ignoring some of the stuff like using it for workouts when it’s freezing outside and getting cardio in with beat saber

The team grew exponentially from the release of KCDI to KCDII, so I hope it’s not hopium that it will remain tried and true, actually making the games for gamers rather than profit.

Definitely is. I have a picture of me looking through the little wood character that’s in the background of the OP, from the museum in Dayton OH

I’ve got about 15 hours into it so far (played from when it released into the wee hours of the morning) and the only bugs I came across so far was I’ve seen one person gliding across the ground instead of walking. IMO, this game is an absolute banger and masterpiece. Definitely a breath of fresh air to have a game work out of the box on the first minute

As someone who does VR in flight sims on one of the least optimized games (DCS) I can see the allure. Aside from that one niche though, I can’t think of many uses for a 90 series card though