Recent content by pincy

Worked great.

if it tastes good, it is good. :) looks like yeast floaties to me, tbh

the best option (imo, though I don't have the patience for it) is just to age it. the second best is kill the yeast before it eats all the sugars (cold crash, dishwasher method, campden, etc). the third best is kill the yeast after it's done and add more apple juice. After trying to make...

Oh, you can be sure the nottingham will dry that right out. If I were you, I'd add a couple cans of juice concentrate, bottle, then do a dishwasher-pasteurize after a couple days of carbing. You'll still have some sugars and you'll have it nice and carbed too. I've also found that the...

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I had a ale in primary sitting in my living room for a week or so because it's warmer there and I love the fruity deliciousness that comes with ales. Today (fermentation is pretty much over), I see my daughter (two years old) with the airlock off, the bung removed and she's sticking her...

If you try to stop fermentation (via cold crashing) and then try and start it up in the bottle to carb, it either won't carb or you'll get bottle bombs. You can always let it ferment out dry and then backsweeten with something unfermentable and bottle carb.

So I left it outside for four days/nights (temps in between 4.2C and -5.1C... 39.56*F & 22.82*F) wrapped in a towel. It cleared some, but not all the way. No idea why. I didn't heat the juice before fermentation, etc etc. I went ahead and racked/bottled anyway, then ran the bottles through...

I'm thinking I'm going to just put it outside tonight (expecting lowin the mid to high twenties) and put a t-shirt over it then rack it tomorrow. It was in my fridge overnight but it's only just started to clear; I don't think it's cold enough in there.

So, I racked to a secondary already, which is in the fridge.... So when it clears up I can rack to the bucket I use for bottling?

This cider isn't going to be carbed at all (except what little carbonation there is when it's bottled)... So I'm thinking that pasteurization would be a good idea. Maybe I could run them through the dishwasher the same way I sterilize empties....

So I've made a few batches of hard cider before, and I've liked them a lot. This time I want to give some away for Christmas, though, and I thought a sweeter cider would be more appropriate for all my friends and family who may not have the same palate as myself. 5 gallons apple juice 2...

I always get my corn sugar from the local bulk food store. It's cheaper (significantly) the my LHBS...

IMO, it's better to forgo spices altogether in cider. I've tried a number of difference combinations/timings of adding cinnamon, allspice and cloves to the cider, and none have turned out well. :( You shouldn't need to cook or otherwise process the cider before pitching. If you're really...

Naw you don't have to boil anything unless you're adding sugar that came from a giant bin full of bugs and children's fingers, in which case you might want to boil the sugar in some water before adding it.