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u/ryeinn · 1 pointr/homebrew

Good luck! Just a heads up, there is a more active community for beer and wine making over at /r/homebrewing, but n2deep gave a pretty perfect list of items. I started out with Charlie Papazian's book "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing," and I've heard people recommend John Palmer's "How to Brew." It made my life easier, but is by no means a requirement.

Have fun with it!

u/giantstonedbot · 1 pointr/homebrew

Ideally you don't want to juice them. You let them sit in a container for 3-4 days at around 45F (dry ice works well to cool). If you juice/press them too early, you'll have very astringent cotton-mouth tannins and green bell pepper flavours (3-methoxy-2isobutylpyrazine). Add s02 before you cold soak though, otherwise you'd be at risk of microbiological stability.

We add enzymes during cold soak to help extract color. Our lab results showed that we extracted 23% of the grapes potential color (total anthocyanins) and only 4% of total potential tannins during cold soak which is what you want! AFter that ideally raise the temperature to 68-70 before innoculating, and then bring it up to 88-90F for 2 days and cool it back down as the fermentation winds down.


Don't vigorously stir, otherwise you'll introduce harsher tannins. Gently "punchdown" the skin cap. As it begins to ferment the cap will rise to the top and need to be punched back down. Make sure the cap is always wet.

There are some great books out there if you're serious. THis is what i'm digesting atm: wine science

u/recluce · 1 pointr/homebrew

I've considered buying the e-z caps too. But then I realized it's essentially one of these airlocks with a convenient screw top attachment to fit on a standard 2 liter bottle and some yeast. If you're trying to go cheap, it might be worth putting together the few pieces necessary to DIY, add some rubber stoppers and a gallon jug of juice and you're pretty much good to go.

In fact, I might just buy all that stuff now...

Edit: It'd probably be cheaper at a local homebrew shop, none of these links I put in here actually come from Amazon so you can't get combined or Amazon Prime shipping. :(

u/geeklimit · -1 pointsr/homebrew

Start with a Mr. Beer kit. Do 3-4 batches, if you like it, then get yourself set up for LME brewing. If you do 5-6 batches of that and still want to brew, then look into all-grain.