SC - brewing/mazing/etc

[John and Barbara Enloe]

If you use sulfite solution in the airlock, you get the staying power of
water and the disinfecting power of the alcohol.

                           Jon


At 12:28 AM 12/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Mike C. Baker wrote:
>
>> ---Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>> > One of the modern tricks I find very handy is to use the
>> > little water airlocks you buy from brewing suppliers for
>> > about $1 in a sealed barrel for my primary fermentation.
>> > THis stops bubbling when fermentation is
>> > more or less complete.
>>
>> Even safer / better is to fill the airlock with "spiritous
>> liquor" (I use the same cheap vodka that goes into my tinctures).
>>
>
>Do check monthly if not weekly to be sure it stays filled.  A dry
>fermentation lock that used to have vodka has killed a few of my
>batches.  Water lasts longer, just keep an eye out
>
>niccolo
>
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