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oh and im turning at least half of it into apple jack hopefully. so i wont bother bottling or carbonating that. any tips on that process?

so how long do you guys think i should let it ferment and sit. should i bottle right after it stops bubbling, should i wait a week. Should i carbonate some of it? any thoughts ideas?

if theres stuff floating on the top still this isnt bad? As a rule is this always true?

dry bay leaves? any more ideas on the speckled top

is the splotchy freckled top part mold? or is it just excess sugar or something? im definately gonna bottle it and see what happens, but does anybody know anything about this? my last batch was just regular brown liquid on the top when i bottled it, this batch has speckled chunks,

no your fine swampass. the answer i was looking for was simple, yet not obvious. "yeast wants to be left alone and not shaken while its working" good to know. that is all i was asking and for some reason it took me a while to get that answer. most of you were fine, its just a few that wanted to...

ok i decided to use a method i read about on here. so i dumped all the contents of the carboy into the toilet, puked my guts out from whiskey, then i siphoned it back out with my mouth into a bucket, i then let my dog drink it, at which point i attached a bag and tube to his genitalia, after...

and im also assuming tokyo road is full of ****.

ok let me retract the word snob if it causes discontent. but i notice this attitude here of "chill out dude stop stressing about it and drink some home made beer" and it seems to me to be either a cop out for lack of a good answer or a "hoppier than though" knee jerk attitude towards the novice"...

ok pitched the yeast wednesday night, and the bubbling is still very very sparse,like once every 10 15 seconds. There is a slight layer forming onthe top, but shouldnt there be more by now. it still looks like the ram grain sugar i put in is sittin at the bottum. Can someone give me some...

So its been about 11 days now and im probably gonna bottle in another week or so, only thing is theres a layer of splotchy light brown residue on the top, with my last brew after the krausen went down the top of the beer was clearish. this one theres this layer of splotchy brown freckles that...

Go to my thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/apple-wine-apple-jack-200840/ and tell me if you think i should shake it or not.

do you speak from experience hex? I was planning on following rukus' advice and shaking it up a good bit, any other opinions?

oh i forgot i dumped some cinnamon (about 1 tbsp or two) and a little lemon juice in. Also 2 teaspoons of pectic enzyme and t teaspoons of yeast nutrient. decided to skip on the campden tablets

So Fall is here and the apples are ripe. My girlfriends aunt has an apple farm and an apple press. so we decided to go up there and fill up a carboy. I was gonna make plain old hard cider but i heard somewhere about apple jack and decided to give it a try. So to make the apple wine i used about...