This is all good advice! Thank you for contributing! I think I did like 8 one gallon batches, just until I found a recipe I liked, realized it was dumb to do it in 1 gallon, and then scaled it up, and have done 5 gallon batches ever since.
I looked into getting a filter, but backed out due to limited space for storage / setup. I think it was the vino something or other? I donāt remember.
Back sweetening has never been a favorite part. Everybody else said KSorb/Campden, so I just fell in line like a good little duckling.
Thatās one of the things I really enjoy about this as a hobby. You can kinda go crazy and do all sorts of stuff, or you can be incredibly and painstakingly meticulous. This was made forever ago, as well, and they didnāt have all the cool stuff we have now.
Iāve had life interfere with my brewing season this year, so Iām missing out on all my blorp blorping airlocks. But Iāve got s couple of carboys aging.
I might make a braggot in fall, we shall see. Iāve not made one of those before. I usually make a pumpkin spice beer around that time, maybe Iāll faff it into something weird.