RandalG

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Hey Ed,

Take a quart in a sauce pan, add some rum, turbinado sugar, and float a cinnamon stick in it and simmer for a while. Serve hot in mugs. It'll warm you right up.

I know it's probably personal preference to some extent but what's your recommendation on quantities of rum and sugar for this grog at least for a starting point?

Lcasanova

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Any thoughts on spicing this up for a "Christmas-ey" taste?

I've thought about adding 1 cinnamon stick and 2 whole cloves to the five gallon batch...

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PurdueDerek

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Just made my first batch, lets hope it turns out nice in a few weeks time

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Hegh

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Threw together my third batch this morning, total time: 20 minutes. Speaking of... I should probably go check if it's started bubbling yet. My first batch took 104 hours.

This time I used table sugar because I didn't have dextrose, but I doubt anyone would be able to tell the difference.

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jcobbs

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I made a one-gallon batch with a pound of brown sugar and a cinnamon stick for the holidays. The brown sugar was OK, but I couldn't really taste any cinnamon. Spices might do better in secondary, I don't know. In any case, I mulled some tonight for an after-Thanksgiving warmer--poured two mugs' worth in a saucepan and heated it with a few tablespoons more brown sugar, a clove, a dash of lemon juice, about a half-teaspoon dried orange peel, and a couple of shakes of powdered cinnamon. Then poured it into mugs over a teaspoon of honey (we like it sweet). Tastes nice, but it's definitely a potent potable. SWMBO was expecting something more like mulled apple juice--her first word was "whoa...." Next time I'll probably cut it with straight juice...unless she really likes it

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vvolf27

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Hello,

I pitched my first batch on 11-19-09.
4 gal tree top apple juice
1 gal tree top apple cider
1.3 # Dark brown sugar
.7 # white sugar
EC 1118 yeast

It was bubbling the next day. My house was about 75 degrees for the first 4 days. I have since lowered the temp to 74 degrees, closed the vent in the room to cool it down some. It's upstairs and without my thermometer, I would say it's about 70 degrees in there now.

My question is, today bubbles are starting to form on top. This has slowly started happening since yesterday. Its real tiny bubbles like the fermenting bubbles, but now are starting to build up. Is this normal because most pics I see, they don't have a layer of bubbles on top.

Thanks for your help!

Hegh

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Yes, that's normal. It'll be fine.

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LiquidGold

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That is normal to have those tiny bubbles on the top. With the different yeast strains that are being used there will be slight differences.

I ued Premier Cuvee and I have the same little bubbles.

EC1118 and Premier Cuvee descriptions both mention that they can be used for champagne.

vvolf27

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Thanks for the replies. Much appreciated!

WIP

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This was a HUGE hit at Thanksgiving Dinner last night. Thanks Ed!

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