Recent content by Jabic

All kegs sold already, sorry. Everything else is still available.

I am selling the following homebrew items. Prices listed are per item, and all sales are final. I will offer a very significant discount for someone buying a large part of the lot (or the whole lot). All items are for pickup in Las Vegas, NV. Homebrew kegs. Various manufacturing origins. In...

Guys, thanks for everything. I'm much clearer on the process now. I think I'll back sweeten with 1# of wildflower honey which, in my 3 gals, should give me FG: 1.011 or thereabouts.

Craig and Dan - thanks for the replies. Could you please explain why I should not stabilize if I plan to use a fruit puree? I'm just not clear on the rationale. Thanks for the patience and help guys, I do appreciate it very much!

I understand. However, I thought people used something called "campden" tablets - I've seen these at my LHBS. Also, I do plan to bottle it still, and probably I won't bottle it until it has bulk aged for at least a year, so I'm not in any particular rush. Is there any reason not to use honey...

I brewed a cyser (or melomel? see below - you tell me what to call it) using the following recipe: 1.5 gal apple cider 1 gal apple/cherry cider 3# Buckwheat honey 2# Wildflower honey OG was 1.107 and fermented with White Labs Champagne Yeast. After 3 months, and one racking, the cyser...

The primary on my first lager, a Vienna at 1.058 (I know, it is a bit high, got better efficiency than I expected) is almost though. I was planning on bringing it down from 50F to 35F over a week and then lagering at this temperature for another week. I would like to gain access to my temp...

I know that White Labs Zurich Lager Yeast (WLP 885) is known as one of the lager yeasts with high alcohol tolerance (listed as the only lager strain with "very high" alcohol tolerance I believe). I guess I'm only thinking of it because I'm fermenting a Vienna with that strain at the moment and...

Greetings, I switch between White Labs and Wyeast depending upon what yeast strain I need and what is available at each of the two LHBS near me. The retailer that carries Wyeast only stocks Propagator packs (25 billion cells). I know that JZ's pitching calc for liquid yeast is designed around...

Check check, guys. The cyser has been moved to a quieter location and I'm going to try to visit my LHBS today to get some yeast for the next cyser. Thanks for the support!

Thanks for the info guys. I'm still not sure whether or not I'll keep this batch or if I'll make one that is not heat pasteurized. Anyway, we'll see.

About a month ago I 'brewed' a cyser (sort of) and I have a few questions/concerns, if anyone could help. Here is the recipe: Mixed 2 gal apple cider + 34 oz Quince Juice + 34 oz Pomegranate Juice + 40 oz Wildflower Honey + 8 oz molasses and brought to 165dF and held for 45 mins...

Thanks a ton guys, I appreciate the help!

I recently decided that for my smaller batches, I would like to convert an extra 5g cooler I have into a mash tun (I usually use my 10g cooler). I bought my first ball valve/bulkhead converter kit online for my 10g cooler but I would like to save a few dollars this time (I would prefer not to...

Thanks for the info. Any reason not to use a portion of sparge water to boil? Just curious why use runoff?