09-19-2022, 04:48 PM
(09-19-2022, 04:09 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I guess the next step is playing with the hydrometer and seeing when I should bottle it. Any advice at this point?
As for fire brewing, my maple syrup experience and outdoor cooking has helped me in this area. Plus the maple sugar is valuable as well, I use it when I process my homegrown tobacco. I'm growing herbs like fennel and mints for menthol to process the tobacco as well. At some point all this begins to tie together, wine making, beer brewing, alcohol distilling, extracts and essential oils, tobacco, cannabis, all the big cash crops and products you'd need for the black market, er, I mean personal use of course.
Speaking from experience, I'd wait until the bubbling has slowed to a rate of maybe a bubble every few seconds. If you're using one of those bubbler things that you put in a cork to shove in the mouth of a carboy. If you're going all the way in a bucket, I'd just give it 10 days. I've never had any batch go beyond that. The biggest thing to worry about if you're bottling is bottling too early and having them explode.