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Hey thanks that was all really helpful! As far as using a priming yeast goes after a long bulk aging, could you just pitch a packet of dry yeast along with the priming sugar and bottle immediately or would you want to pitch, then wait a few hours/days before priming and bottling?

I'm considering doing my first batch of hard cider. I was going keep it simple and just use 5 gallons of apple cider (cloudy brown kind) and dry ale yeast and then keeping it in a primary for about 4 weeks, but I know that cider needs to age a lot longer than beer to maximize the awesomeness...

Thanks! I'll take that under consideration.

I'm relatively new to brewing and decided to take a bit of a leap and threw together a porter recipe myself--it's pretty basic. Is it any good? Also, I have a question about the hops: I was planning on using Cascade and what they had at the LHBS are listed as 8.7% alpha, which is higher than I...