Boboro
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If you press it tight how does air get to it ?
i cant find it either... i dont know where it went...
If you press it tight how does air get to it ?
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I sure wish I would have saved the video about the Martin farm. The entire process was documented in detail. Endless searches have yielded no returns. Maybe it was too informative, whatever the reason...it's gone.
.It formed a head crust two inches thick on top and began to smelling really bad , soured . Before I moved the barrel it would ferment just like beer and the smell was good .
So my advice is to keep the temperature around 75 to 80 degrees .
Bob
It is still sitting in the barrel . I have been tempted to open it up . It does smell like manure on top . I just wonder if it is like that all the way through or if the bottom may be different ..
Has anyone tried there homeade perique from this year?
I've read that as well. When I can figure out how to find BigBonner (Larry - I've gathered from reading on here) and buy some seed/lings; I will grow some white burley on a patch of ground that I've already put composted molasses and dried molasses. I don't know if that will help the fermentation process or speed of of it but it's worth a try. Sure will be a lot of activity below ground surface though!Now I wonder if someone would try a "mini" version of this process with like a 5 gallon bucket and duplicate the lever system and possibly see if the addition of molasses which was grown by the original growers and sometimes suspected of being added to set off the fermintation process also. I will later if I succeed in growing any