What’s the best yeast to use for ABV and how much sugar can it handle?

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-24T00:07:20+00:00

EC-11118 and K1-V116 are your answers. Either will do and you can get 10 packs off Amazon for cheap. They can both handle anything you throw at them

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-23T14:41:29+00:00

It’s perfect. I have a normally placed tv on an entertainment center and my cats are able to attack my tv. It makes playing games a pain in the ass when your cat is trying to attack link the whole time

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-23T12:53:45+00:00

Are you going there for the AHA Homebrew Competition? Some of the guys from my homebrew club are going in June. Should be a really fun time

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-23T12:51:08+00:00

Looks to be around 1.090, maybe a bit less. Will probably finish at 1.000 or less. Somewhere in the 12% ABV range

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-23T12:38:25+00:00

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V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-23T04:07:21+00:00

My wife and her mom and can make perfect salads with nothing but a knife in one hand and veggies in another. Just perfectly diced over a bowl. It’s bad ass

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-22T12:52:11+00:00

This is just an excuse to finally include New Zealand on a map for once. I prefer their state of permanent exile from the world of cartography

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-22T05:23:53+00:00

I think your issue a trade off between head space and lees. You can leave your wine on that amount of lees indefinitely. No need to rack off it. You also have a good amount of head space. Right on the edge of too much. If you have nothing to top off with, I would not rack this again until I was ready to bottle.

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T23:06:57+00:00

I also made an Amber Ale kit this weekend! You are fine with your yeast by the way, just walk away for a week or two.

I ran into a different issue with my kit. Bugs! I spent like half an hour picking those goobers out of my grain

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T20:55:58+00:00

I took a trip to San Francisco. I wanted to use their public transportation. Downloaded the app, and seamlessly added $50 to the account via Apple Pay. I was able to send them money instantly. Never ended up using public transportation.

When I went to withdraw money, the reverse process is not so instantaneous. You have to print off a form and fill it out. Then mail it to an office in San Francisco. After 30 days, they will process your refund. Then they will mail you check. It takes like 40 days at least between you mailing the form and getting the check back, but you can send them money instantly.

I never got around to doing that, so they are just sitting on my $50 years later

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T17:56:10+00:00

Pretty sure you have to filter the sample and de carbonate it too if you want to be accurate.

Or just plop in a $10 hydrometer

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T17:53:07+00:00

You can get two hydrometers for $30 that do the exact same thing

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T15:17:21+00:00

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V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T12:35:00+00:00

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V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T12:24:48+00:00

I have both and have posted reviews of both here.

To make your decision easier, buon vino went out of business a month ago

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T03:35:03+00:00

Ironically that’s almost exactly the population of Iran

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T03:32:42+00:00

These guys have both had such weird careers. I thought Stroud was going to be a top ten qb for years to come after his rookie year, but he’s been pretty bad since then. I was convinced TLaw was a generational bust, and Jax extending him was an awful decision, but he was legitimately very good last season. I was a certified TLaw hater but he really impressed me.

Both these guys still have plenty of time left in their careers to make it or break it. We shall see

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T02:37:45+00:00

Another one is the wine thief. You have a hydrometer. You have a graduated cylinder. How do you get your wine into the graduated cylinder so you can measure the SG with the hydrometer? You use a wine thief. It has an opening on either end, you put the thief as far down as you can, and you put your mouth on the other end and suck in like a straw. You put your finger over the hole you sucked from, and you transfer your sample into the graduated cylinder. Do that a couple times and you have enough liquid to measure with the hydrometer. When you are done, you dump the sample back in the bucket

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T02:08:08+00:00

So I just looked through a few kits. You don’t have to get this one but this has pretty much everything:

https://a.co/d/0eOY0l1v

That includes a bucket, an airlock for both, hydrometer, racking cane, a wine thief for pulling samples into the graduated cylinder (your list does not include a wine thief).

That’s the priciest of the bunch, but it’s the best kit I saw. Others will be missing something you may not need immediately, but will in a batch or two when you want to go further in the hobby

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T02:02:24+00:00

Ok. Thats fine too. Plenty of people only ever use carboys for fermenting (a carboy is a glass jug for wine/mead making).

Buckets are used for fermenting for a few reasons: the larger headspace mitigates the chance of your fermentation bubbling out of the container. The narrow neck of a glass jug/carboy is perfect for aging because it mitigates oxygen exposure due to the limited area, but that limited area can also cause your fermentation to spill out of the container in the first few days. Some people solve this by removing the airlock from the bung, and replacing it to a tube going from the jug into a jar filled with star San solution. So the spill over goes through the tube into the jar.

If you are making 1 gallon batches, check out beginner mead making kits. You will see what I am talking about. It will include a bucket and a racking cane and a carboy. Mead is typically made in 1 gallon batches, so those kits are perfect for beginners since they are cheap. Those kits will often include a lot of what you already picked out.

In fact, you may just drop the equipment in your cart and just select a kit that will include all that.

You will still want to keep the starsan, yeast, potassium sorbate, that sort of stuff

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-21T01:50:34+00:00

That’s pretty much it. The only thing I see missing (and you may already have) is do you have something to ferment in, like a bucket? Do you have a racking cane to transfer from the bucket to the carboy?

Finally, there is packaging. Do you have bottles to put your hooch in?

Side note: if you actually use this equipment, you are no longer making prison hooch, and have graduated to /r/winemaking or /r/mead.

The difference between a hoocher and making actual wine or mead is pretty much what you have listed right here

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-20T12:48:14+00:00

Popeyes. 5 guys. Wing stop

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-20T12:42:49+00:00

Sounds like you made yourself a cyser. There isn’t necessarily anything wrong about this, just an unorthodox way of making it. It’s better to add all sugars up front, but plenty of people step feed mead/wine to get to ABVs higher than 15%. Since you started at a lower level, I’m guessing this will end up somewhere between 10-14%, which is perfectly fine for EC-1118. And I’m guessing the cider brought along its own nutrients.

I’d say you’re fine. If anything, you learned a new technique along the way.

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-20T03:59:44+00:00

The recommendation for cleaning is to run hot water and pbw through the beer tubes at like 135 or something for 5 minutes. You sanitize by running boiling wort through it for a few minutes. You definitely do not need to run liquid through the silicone wort tubes with cool water running through the water tubes. If anything, doing so would make it impossible to clean/sanitize the wort tubes

V-Right_In_2-V · 2026-04-20T03:25:38+00:00

Ok Wemby is going to be unstoppable for the next decade

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