Recent content by boqa

Hi, I am an amateur brewer who has found an interest in making ciders using store bought apple juice as a base. As such, the ciders tend to become quite sour (or "dry" to use a commonly used euphemism) and I have been looking into various ways to add sweetness, e.g. adding non-fermentables...

Okay, good to hear that. I was bit worried that ginger and DME might not play together so well, but it sounds like you had great success, I'll give it a go. Time to brew before summer temperatures come along and makes brewing impossible. Cheers!

Want to make something like this, spiced winter cider with ginger, clove (be careful, I know), cinnamon, perhaps allspice, pepper, anise and/or cadamom. My question is; I'm considering whether I should boost the ABV by using (dark) brown sugar as suggested in this recipe or perhaps instead use...

Please let us know! I'm considering making something similar myself and found your posts through the search.

Well, my question (if your answer was directed to me) wasn't really about whether 0.5oz was enough or not. I'm interested in knowing about the IBU of this thing which I need to know if I want to reproduce with difference boil sizes with different specific gravities etc. Anyway, I think I...

I'm about to make my first batch and was doing a few calculations and considerations : The recipe calls for 2 lb of DME to be dissolved in total of 1 gallon water, right? Acording to http://www.brewersfriend.com/extract-ogfg/ this should give an OG of approximately 1.09, but I expect that the...

Seems to me that a characteristic of graf is its "eye-watering" properties. Lol, I doubt many of the grafs brewed on this forum will do that for you (possibly except those with infections gone wild).

So how did your experiment work out? good result or not?