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To be honest, this was my first season collecting sap so I can't tell you if it is a good year or not :) The run was intermittent, two weeks ago being about the best for volume. I am hoping that by this time next year, I will have a little more experience and that this years batch of maple wine will...

Cool! I am interested in knowing about the beer from sap. I have a recipe for wine, but this is the first year making it so I will get back to you in a year when it is ready. Recipe calls for both sap and syrup. (Lots of both, like 1 gallon of syrup and 4 gallons of sap for a 5 gallon batch) I imagi...

I have read about the use of zinc as a yeast nutrient and of storing yeast in galvanized containers due to this, but I have never heard of the use of copper as such. Apparantely, the yeast will eat through the galvanization given enough time. In the modern home brew world, commercial yeast nutrient ...

What a great opportunity for me to check out the technical difficulty I have been having with submitting to the Hop Vine Forum. Great website. Great advice. Wow, I'm glad I found this place! I am relatively new to brewing and have seen a dramatic improvement to my beer since I found beertools.com. M...