Questions tagged [barrels]
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What sugar to use when transferring to bottle or barrel
Doing a homebrew for the first time, bought a kit to do it with; figured it be a good student method of saving money :).
Anyway, its currently in the fermenting bin, and when it comes to transferring ...
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Does cider in oak barrel need airlock during secondary fermentation, for the gas to escape?
I have 200 litres of cider which was racked yesterday into 2 x 100 litre oak barrels. Before racking, the cider was still fermenting at a rate of about one bubble (through the airlock) per two minutes....
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Barrel Aging- How Many Times Can I Use One?
Last month I bottled my 09 Chardonnay. I had a small (15 gallon) french oak barrel on the side that I aged some of my topping wine in, blended into the final blend. It was used for Brandy once, then ...
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Re-racking in a Buffalo Trace whiskey barrel
The story is; We have 5-6 home brewer's who will be doing 6 batches of 5 gallon beer. We will be bringing the fermentators/carboys over to my house and re-racking all 30 gallons into a Buffalo Trace ...
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