Hi everyone I decided to make hard cider and I forgot to take a gravity readings of the apple juice. I used store bought apple juice from Shop Rite which only had vitamin C added and was partially from concentrate. can anybody give me some sort of idea of what the original gravity of my cider...
Not that I can be of much help since I'm still new to brewing but I used canned pumpkin in my pumpkin ale that called for 10lb's of fresh roasted pumpkin but since its out of season I used 8lb's of canned pumpkin puree. This was an extract brew so I can't comment on the issues you may have...
Thanks for the info everyone, as this was only my 3rd batch I'm still learning about all of this and will be much more careful next time. Thanks for that link to hopville.com, I used it and it looks like a good indicator for what my OG should be and I will use that in conjunction with my...
I was really hoping that my OG was incorrect, I had originally crossed out 1.082 so I'm really not sure why though. Wouldn't that be 1.082-1.020=.062x131=8.122%?
I boiled and finished with about 3 gallons and added 2 gallons of cold water, I aerated vigorously before I took my OG reading...
I'm not sure what yeast it was all I know was that it was an American Ale yeast that was in a packet, it was not the Wyeast with the smack pack that I have used before. The man at the homebrew store told me just to dump it on top of the cooled wort. I fermented at 72%. I will let it dry hop...
Ok, so after reading i'm still unsure what my issue is. I gave my hand at my third brew and tried for a really hoppy IPA. I used 8oz of crystal malt and 9lb's of dried malt extract. I used an American Ale yeast and made sure the temp was below 80 before I pitched the yeast. After 8 days and...