Recent content by jcharlson

Hey, I'm entirely new to the whole electric brewing idea, but I really want to give it a shot. I have very limited electric wiring experience, so I'm wanting to make sure I'm understanding things correctly. My goal is to make a singe 3 gallon kettle into a unit capable of heating up and...

I think had everything pretty well mixed, I stirred until I couldn't feel any more granules on the bottom, probably about 5 minutes or so. I suppose it's always a possibility though. Not other additives were added, just the white and brown sugars. If that is the case, is it just a waiting...

So I'm playing with 1 gallon carboys, experimenting with different yeasts and sugars and currently have 6 going to hopefully get to my end result faster. Anyways, I've had an interesting time with my gravities, they seem to be rising. The temp in my brew room and the temp of all the...

Hey, So I went to keg 3 batches of cider today and right before pumping into the kegs I decided to take another gravity reading, thinking it wouldn't change and if it did that it would go down slightly. To my surprise, one of them went up 4 points and the other two went up 3 points. What...

Hey, So I'm working on starting a cider this next week and I think I have most of the procedural stuff down, but I've got 2 specific questions I'm having a harder time finding answers to and I'm hoping someone can help me out. First is about the yeast. I'm wanting to brew a cider with a...