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Compass Rose:
Main thing to remember when making wine is use lots and lots of boiling hot water to clean everything. I suspect same thing is true of beer brewing equipment. Can't use bleach or soap as any residue will kill off the yeasts you want to keep alive, and/or give a nasty taste to the resulting wine. Wine making is time consuming when cooking up the ingredients to start with and getting it into the carboy, then a lot of patience and waiting. You really need to be a bit anal about following directions, as it is easy to accidentally get wild yeast and such into the mix. Said wild yeast can really do a nasty number on your fermenting mixture. (Shudder)
Paynesgrey:
With beer you can use bleach, I suspect with wine too.. but you must rinse, rinse, super-rinse, power ninja dragon space-angel hyper panda rinse, and then, just to be sure, rinse one more time.
Cross contamination is probably the biggest brewdevil you've got to look out for with wine or beer. Set your spoon down on a contaminated counter top that you cleaned, but leaned a hand on after touching something in another room, etc. Good idea is a set of hooks to hang your spoon, ladle, thermometers and such off of so the business end never touches anything but the wort until you're completely finished with them. Windows shut, fans, AC, or forced air turned off to prevent the circulating air from depositing some bit of wild yeast, mildew or bacteria that was lurking in the ductwork.
Esperacchius23:
I've been home brewing for some time now. I use starsan sanitizer for everything. It's easy. I make beer, wine, mead and cider.
I've been trying to put together a rich american brown ale to call Mac's brown ale. My current brown ale recipe is great but it already has a name...Doc Brown Ale.
Anyway, great topic. I am also "arrogantdusty" over on the homebrewtalk message boar.
Quantus:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/11/28/for-winning-the-nobel-prize-niels-bohr-got-a-house-with-free-beer/
You guys will apprieciate this. When Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg brewery gifted him with a free house near the brewery. And the best part of the house was that it had a direct pipeline to the brewery, so that his private (and free) beer tap would never run dry.
And there are theories that it is part of what helped him crack much of Quantum Physics. From the Article:
--- Quote ---So how did Bohr keep his mind supple and flexible, ready to accept new ideas when his peers like Einstein couldn’t? Well, here’s the thing – there are several studies that indicate that being drunk can actually improve your creativity. That’s because it prevents your mind from being able to focus, so it more readily drifts from one connection to another, which can yield creative solutions to problems.
So was free beer the reason why Bohr was able to make great strides in developing quantum mechanics? Okay, probably not – but I’m sure a few late night drinking sessions with other physicists didn’t hurt.
--- End quote ---
Chiana:
I've been doing a lot of research and reading on wine making. I think it requires more time and patience than I possess right now. I will stick to throwing some fruit in a blender with some ice and hard stuff. My hat is off to all you beer and wine makers!
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