Recent content by acemannw

Can't get my picture to post correctly

I bought more of the Aldis Sorbate Cider again because you can't beat the price. My trick this time was to pitch the yeast for 2 days on the stir plate, up the temperature in the pantry to 85F and also add some extra yeast nutrient. Fermented along really nice for about 10 days.

I should have added that I will be killing of the Yeast with sorbate.

OK here is my math problem. Norm has 9 gallons of Cider brewing. It started at 1.08 and will ferment till it is at 1.00. Which should get me an ABV of 10.50% I am going to add 2 gallons of regular cider for flavoring and some sweetness to this batch. My Question is what would be the...

Everything is brewing along nicely. The wife is even complaining of the smell when she walks by the closet so that is a good sign.

Well I mixed the Sorbate Cider with some organic stuff 50/50 I am adding a yeast starter that I ran for 24 hours on the stir plate. I had two 5 gallon Carboyz of cider.

Good idea I will try this too.

Good idea I will try this too.

So my plan is to get a really good yeast starter going and I'm going to mix the wrong cider with the right cider or half and half. I am going for a 10 gallon batch.

So I bough the wrong Cider at Aldis. It has Potassium Sorbate in it. I am wondering if there is anyway to cook out or get rid of the Potassium Sorbate? It kills me to return all of this cider.

I am up to 30 Gallons since Sept of last year!!

I have been buying Musslemans All Natural Cider from Walmart for the last few months. Shipping is cheap and until the last box I ordered they have alway had it in stock. Only costs $4 per gallon and it makes excellent cider.

I have some very bubbly pear cider that most people think is a champagne. I put it in plastic tonic bottles and primed with the pear juice and some more frozen apple juice concentrate. It is so carbonated I am pouring one glass then shake up the bottle to get some of the bubbles out. It is...

My goal is to make a Twisted Tea clone. I decided to brew up a straight sugar water then mix in the tea afterwards. My sugar water with S-04 yeast was at 1.082 just like I wanted. This should get me to around 10.5% alchohol for that gallon. I am going to mix in 1 gallon of Arizona tea and...

I have been using 1 liter tonic bottles since I started bottling Cider. It has worked great!