owenfromcanada

Thanks for the input! I do have and use oxygen-based sanitizer, which I use on all of my carboys and fermentation vessels (anything that will stay in contact for a while), and I’ll sanitize my other equipment while I’m at it. But there are times when I want to rinse a spoon (that had previously been sanitized) and use it again. Sounding like that’s not an issue as long as the tap water is potable.

For the main water in my mead, I use filtered water from my fridge. Takes out the worst of the chlorine and other off flavors, and has worked great so far. I was just nervous because in other things I’ve read, some people insist on spring or distilled water, which seems over the top when you live in a place with drinkable tap water.

Thanks for the response! I’m learning that plain tap water seems pretty common, in contrast to a lot of my reading online that insists on water collected from free range llama tears or whatever.

Dang, that is a level of patience I have not yet aquired.

Thanks for the input! I actually froze the fruit before adding it (both to kill as much bacteria as possible as well as breaking down the cell walls for better infusion). I don’t know that it counts as “sanitizing” to freeze it, but I read somewhere that it helps. I’m using Lalvin D47 currently, seems easy enough to get going aggressively.

It’s city water, and as far as I know is pretty clean. Mainly concerned about the chlorine content. I filter it before using it for mead, and the yeast seems to like it okay, just wondering about using unfiltered water for rinsing things.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah I’ve been thoroughly degassing and oxygenating before adding nutrients, I probably didn’t that first time (I don’t remember if it erupted on pitch day or the next day, might have been the latter).

Haven’t been brave enough for a wild ferment yet, but I’ll probably try before too long.

Indirectly. But as another commenter pointed out, it balances out with the tax rebates.

I have a robust monitoring system for my Jellyfin server, been running for the last few years. Checks in periodically, at least once per 24 hours and notifies me if it’s down. Doesn’t use any electricity, but does consume a good amount of Cheerios and mac & cheese.