Recent content by Homebrew_Honkey

Awesome you have helped me a lot thank you! I have been planning on some 5gal buckets for "mashing" I just haven't gotten one yet, like I said I just upgraded to a 5gal batch and have only been doing half gallons at a time

im pretty sure im past the cure part, the bottles that are racked for conditioning have lost the smell and are now very sweet smelling so im assuming what ive read from the responses that that is my problem, I was curious as to wether a bucket for primary fermentation would be best? and if so...

what do u mean by more active procedures? i didnt touch it after i set to ferment, i am pretty new still so i was under the impression to just sit and let it do its own thing for the week and just keep my eye on temperature? Thank you for the input btw!!

Sulfur is the smell I found! my buddies who sampled it with me said they called it the "duck fart" cider? haha

have any of you guys tried using the Lalvin K1-1118? I tried it this last batch I made and it came out very dry, and skunky?

When you sanitize with the hand wash is it unscented? and how many batches of this have you made? im surprised to see you aren't using any sugar?

So im assuming from reading around here, my problem is just UV light, but I need opinions to better judge, I have been making cider for a few months now, and just upgraded to a bigger carboy for bigger batches. So far I have been doing .5gal batches in a glass liquor bottle I sterilize and...

Hey all, im working on the 5day Sweet Country Cider posted in the recipes forum here on HBT, I am going to cold crash the cider tonight as it is day 5. I was wondering, with a half gallon brew, if it is smart to use campden tabs to clarify, and kill the yeast.... If so how much, I believe I read...

Thanks guys, I am probably going to try using the sediment to brew more, I didn't think that was a good idead at all, I figured it was just waste product? and I do notice the live yeast making me fart a bit lol! What kinds of sugars can I use that are not fermentable so that I can backsweeten...

Hi everyone, my wife and I just took up the great hobby of homebrewing! We're just starting to ferment hard cider seeing as though its the most inexpensive to learn with. Our first bottle was finished yesterday. It was a 750mL bottle, and we used Fleischmanns RapiRise yeast, wich we probably...