Hegh

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Any word on whether calcium lactate will permanently sour apfelwein? The last post about it said it was improving with time, but I haven't seen anything about it since.

Also, what about calcium gluconate? Is that likely to cause any problems?

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Seabee John

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I've got 5 gallons of almost 14 month old apfelwein that is finally ready for the keg, I want to split the batch and half of it will be flavored with either cranberry juice or raspberry juice (from concentrate)

Just wondering what would be the right amount to properly flavor 2.5 gallons?

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MSatt

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God damn you ed wort! I had about 18 servings of ed worts apfelweins (I made) two nights ago and it still hurts...when will it end? Man I love this ****!

BWRIGHT

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Kegged an 8 month old batch this weekend. Quite a difference. This was only my second batch. The first was an ale yeast of some sort, this time I used Cote de Blanc. Don't know if it's more the aging or the yeast, but this is much smoother. I should have started more a long time ago.

BigKahuna

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Now I've done soe really stupid things in my day, Like REEEEEEELY stupid things....But I'm still smarter than you.

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UnaBonger

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Lol, I have 3 pints and I can slightly feel it the next day... 5 and I'm miserable but will survive... 18 and I'd be dead for sure...

ChshreCat

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The dangerous thing about it is (at least the batch I made) the fact that it goes down like nothing. If someone just handed it to me, I wouldn't guess it had much if any alcohol in it.

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Mellman

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so I must say...anyone considering this take this to heart - Remember to reserve judgment till after 3 glasses. It grows on you.

I have been keeping my hands off my first batch for 1 month and 2 days now. I go to check my gravity today since it looks to have cleared and it is at .996-998 so its done. I take a sip of what i poured into my hydrometer tube and spat it out! Oye...i had already bought enough to start another batch but was waiting to try this one first.

It was dry...and not sweet like I was used to (think woodchuck cider) It had a 'sourness' to it. I thought oh great somethin went wrong and it has an infection. But the thing has a 'winelike' smell, and does not even show a hint of any nasties growing.

so as i'm reading this thread seeing what people do to sweeten it, i take a few more sips. That nice apple twang at the end is kinda like oooh, hey! so while it only took me 3 sips from the sampling tube...If at first it's not your thing, try try again

now i just need to finish my keezer so i can get the rest of my kegs flowing w/o party taps!

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Willie3

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I made a cyser about a year ago and had the last one last night. I bottled it still but about 8 months into the lagering I discovered it had carbonated quite well. When I tried it at first it was eh, drinkable, not my favorite. As the year went on and I drank more of it, like homebrew, it got better each time I tried it. Last night was a treat, probably the best apple flavored beverage I ever ingested.

My questions to all you Apfelwien fans, if decided not to prime, will it overtime become primed on its own?

I also do not have dextrose at my disposal so I am using 4#s of Honey. This makes it more in the Cyser category but does not have the weight in Honey a trady cyser should. Will this be close to Apfelwien, has anyone tried this before?

-WW

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GregR

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reading up on apfelwein I can't wait for my inaugural batch to be done! my brother made a batch and brought it down for thanksgiving. it was still VERY green but showed a lot of potential. it was only sitting in the bottle for less than a week but we were too impatient to even let it carb before we tried one.

mine will be ready to bottle around new years and I'm thinking of starting another batch this weekend.