Recent content by akpediatrician

Uhh being in a similar situation I'd note 1.018 isn't at all dry for cider (though when it still has carbonation working I'd say it isn't sweet either, however when it flattens it will taste damn sweet at 1.018, or even at 1.011 like mine.) Don't make my mistake, apparently you need to let it...

Ahh, that is what I feared, and now am scared. Plus that FG of 1.011 was before the addition of another 5 oz of priming sugar. The LHBS guy had told me 1.010 was my goal or 3 days of constant unchanging gravity and I went with it. Then I had nosed around here and saw FG's of anywhere from...

Ahh, unfortunately it is bottled, and I don't really want to pour them back in... I could watch carefully and cold crash it and store it refrigerated, I got the space, but am hoping the FG of 1.011 just equals more carb and no bombs. I've probably had 4 volumes of CO2 in the Grolsch under new...

So, new to cider, used to do a lot of beer in grad school 20 years ago, but now drink cider and can't get what I like (hard, dry, nicely carbed) much here in AK. I still was doing wine every year, and mentioned to the the LHBS guy, and he was like "why not just do cheap easy cider." He...