Category: Brewing & Winemaking

The final video in my How To Make Red Wine From Grapes series covering the bottling process. Many long months of waiting have finally churned

I’ve received a number of comments on YouTube regarding some videos I had made on recirculating wort chillers (and even on my jockey box videos)

I get occasional comments on my YouTube homebrewing videos asking why I don’t rack to a secondary fermenter during fermentation and instead ferment completely in my

The fifth in the series, this video focuses on how and why you want to regularly rack your wine while it bulk ages; specifically how

An excerpt from my upcoming video on brewing my first batch of lager beer.  I brewed it in mid-January 2017.  It’s now Spring 2017.

Putting my latest DIY project to the test, I chill a batch of boiling wort down to lager pitching temperatures (55 deg F). It exceeded

Learn how to create and build up a yeast starter for use with high gravity worts, larger batches of wort, and lagers. Homebrewing Basics: Making

The final bottle of my 2013 wine opened and tasted. Original wine videos: Part 1: https://youtu.be/L4xTsjtCllw Part 2: https://youtu.be/G8i4zhtXEC4

  A walkthrough of making a white wine (my 2016 pinot grigio) from juice through the final tasting.

In the fifth video, it is time for the first racking to get the wine off the gross lees. While I’m racking, I also degas

In this fourth video, the pressed wine is transferring to a carboy to complete fermentation and settle out the gross lees. Checkout the entire series: