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I got my first keg from keg connection.com for my birthday last night! Wife surprised me knowing I'd been looking to get one just hadn't jumped the gun. I got the Italian AEB ones and I gotta say they're are great quality! Pricey but I didn't want to get a dinged up previously used and filled...

It seems consistent with everyone's experience. This yeast is slow to pick up but gets going well after a while. Thanks for sharing!

It seems consistent with everyone's experience. This yeast is slow to pick up but gets going well after a while. Thanks for sharing!

Ended up brewing that cider and your description was spot in. Though my fermentation took 30 hours to kick off. I pitched in Saturday might and it didn't start bubbling till around midday today. (I assume since it wasn't when I left for work this morning.)

I'm glad you posted this. Im using this for the first time this week for a cider after using Notty for my last batch. (new to cider, not beer though.) Ill use it and let you know how it goes.

I should have kept better notes, but here's what I got. I'm going to go in the order that I made it, which was split in to 3 sections after I list the materials below. Total time was about 5 hours. That included screwing around with the sewing machine which I hadn't touched since high school...

I made a jacket that allows me to place a 6.5 gallon fermenter inside along with ice bottles to lower temps. It costs me about $20 in sipplies to make. I've gotten temps down to 58° with a 1 liter bottle. I can change the bottle out every 12 hours for good measure but have left it in there 24...

Cutting out fabric was probably the hardest part Haha Once I got going, the sewing went quick.

Nice setup! Looks like it should cool fine.

So I bought the following: 1 1/3 yd. Polyester fabric for Inner lining (They sold me the extra for a discount.) 1 yd. Cotton Fabric for Outer lining 2 yds. Insulbright For Insulative Layer 48" Zipper I had left overs of all fabrics but not a ton.

So I bought the following: 1 1/3 yd. Polyester fabric for Inner lining (They sold me the extra for a discount.) 1 yd. Cotton Fabric for Outer lining 2 yds. Insulbright For Insulative Layer 48" Zipper I had left overs of all fabrics but not a ton.

I don't have a fridge for temp control but I know it has a huge impact on your beer. I don't want to spend the extra $$ to build a ferm chamber at the moment so I looked into getting a fermenting jacket to hold me over. I thought I could build my own for cheaper and here is the final result. I...

First cider! Used an unfiltered Honey Crisp Juice from the store, Old Orchard Concentrate, and a bit of maple syrup to prime.

Stove top pasteurized. Didn't die! Worked like a charm but also my cider was lightly carbed so lessened bomb risk Haha Great tutorial so many years down the road.

For what it's worth, my cider did something similar. Went crazy for the first two days, and now I'm getting two bubbles per minute, maybe less. It's going to be fermenting for a while this one.