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• Posted in thread: Bottling wand for Perlick 525/75, AKA Bowie Bottler on 11-12-2012 at 07:40 PM
  Got my BB a couple of weeks ago. THANKS BEN!!! It's pretty.I had a couple of bottles to fill
  before I got the bottling wand set up so I tried it just with a long hose attached to the
  adaptor, and it f...

• Posted in thread: Rebuilding press, have lots of apples, need help making fresh cider on 10-30-2012 at 11:20 PM
  PS - I dosed it with a smashed up campden tablet, then went with Safale S-04 and because the
  press broke during initial use, we ended up just using our awesome juicer to get the juice
  outta the apples...

• Posted in thread: Rebuilding press, have lots of apples, need help making fresh cider on 10-30-2012 at 11:12 PM
  Using a stronger wood is only addressing the symptoms of the problem, and not the underlying
  cause. As roadymi said, you need to grind up the apples into a pulp. Simply cutting them up
  will not do, al...

• Posted in thread: Rebuilding press, have lots of apples, need help making fresh cider on 10-30-2012 at 08:37 PM
  So I made cider this past weekend and it was a miserable failure, the press was at least. I'd
  like some input on my presssing process as I may have just done it wrong or something. Not sure
  what to sa...

• Posted in thread: Rebuilding press, have lots of apples, need help making fresh cider on 10-26-2012 at 07:58 PM
  Is there a need to filter the juice before it goes into the fermenter, or does the cheesecloth
  handle that for you? Also ideas on the type of store to get a piece of cheesecloth large
  enough, or can I...

• Posted in thread: 'Non-spiced' Pumpkin Ginger Ale on 10-26-2012 at 05:34 PM
  This came out good. I ended up making a vanilla extract with about 8 oz of vodka and 6 vanilla
  beans cut into pieces. I added about 3 tablespoons of this extract to the batch after I kegged
  it, and ma...

• Posted in thread: Rebuilding press, have lots of apples, need help making fresh cider on 10-26-2012 at 05:14 PM
  Hey everyone! I've been making mead for several years, beer for about a year, and have a pretty
  strong understanding of fermentation in general. I recently acquired a press that was mostly
  rotted out ...

• Posted in thread: Bottling wand for Perlick 525/75, AKA Bowie Bottler on 10-10-2012 at 10:08 PM
  Sorry to hear about the relapse; I hope you took enough time to take care of yourself and we're
  glad to hear that you are back in the saddle again!Having said that, I'm excited to hear you're
  making t...

• Posted in thread: Dispensing two kegs with one faucet. on 10-04-2012 at 05:46 PM
  Hmm, yeah, good point, I suppose in commercial setups they don't have to worry about yeast at
  all. Personally I wouldn't worry about actually eliminating headspace, as the beer would be
  falling into a...

• Posted in thread: Dispensing two kegs with one faucet. on 10-04-2012 at 04:56 PM
  Here is what you need to do: This will greatly simplify things for you... Make up a short line
  with the same diameter tubing as the rest of your system. Put a gas QD on one end, and a liquid
  QD on the...