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I am thinking of doing a "Christmas cranberry" version, but lowering the DME to 0.5lbs to lessen the malt flavor and upping the sugar during the boil. The spices will be cinnamon, all spice berries, whole cloves, and possibly nutmeg. I am thinking of doing a vodka tincture with the spices and...

Curious, but did you use anything other than blackberry juice in primary?

That looked infected to me. True?

Thanks for the reply Pianoman. I don't have a secondary big enough to contain the 6+ gallons, otherwise I was thinking of transferring and letting it sit another week. Texaswine, I was following the original recipe, which calls for the sorbate to be added when sweetening on bottling day. The...

After only 7 days in the primary, my bubble activity has dropped to one bubble leaving the primary every 4.75 minutes. It seems to me about time to rack this lemonade to the bottling bucket. I will be checking the gravity later today before racking and it is close to 1.000, I will blend it with...

So I brewed up the straight lemonade this last Saturday and those yeast are some happy critters! They have been burping out CO2 all weekend long, making my laundry room smell of lemon custard! We are looking forward to this one.

In our house, we have a wash sink in our laundry room. It is deep enough that I can sit my 6.5 gal primary in there and fill it up with water and then my temps sit right at 68-70 deg. year round. For secondary, I place my carboys in my basement, which sits in the low 60s year round. If you...

Cool! We are at Overland and Cloverdale, so a little bit west of you. I wonder if we are fed by the same reservoir.

I am thinking of making a batch of this over Labor Day weekend. Sounds great!

That sounds awesome! I like the idea of making specific tinctures and adding them one at a time to control flavor. Great idea! Oh, and I had not thought of baking the pumpkin but that makes so much sense and it should strengthen the pumpkin pie flavor.

Yeah. That would be cool to see. :-)

Crash21, I have had the same thought process... It may have even been sitting in front of the TV too, thinking about brews!

Pumpkin dubbel?

I'll be interested to hear how this turns out. We currently have sugar pumpkins growing in our garden and I was thinking of using some of the pulp to make an apple / pumpkin cider. I like the idea of the spices too. I am thinking about making a syrup with the pumpkin and adding that to an apple...

This will indeed be interesting! Good luck!