Recent content by quakeman

you are just wright , i just finished my first 2 carboys ,23L each, simpler than yours, only juice(past, and very sweet, maybe next year i will add sugar) and samp and dry beer yeast , no priming , set 2 days and then bottling, but with both carboys if i didnt use sulphites it would give me...

-second carboy (dry beer yeast) racked today , pitched on 19 sep, fermented dry till 13 oct, ( bubbles at about 1.5 min); fermented longer than the first carboy (samp yeast) , i would have expected more alcohol and dryer cider , it is a little dryer but the alcohol about the same ,on half of...

use some Potassium metabisulphite , its your "animal instinct" telling you its something wrong with the drink ( thats why you cant finish your cider), some other creatures like bacteria and fungi like your brew too lol ( i had the same feeling before adding sulphites had a restraint). cheers

hey that looks like a nice clear product in the end , but i would be concern about the contamination and oxidation of the cider from that moving around , i can tell from my experience ( its little but..., i almost threw out 20 L, that now i'll enjoy) it will alter, you have to taste it between...

hi , new to this forum and brewing . Having a little orchard , I decided to brew some old style dry cider ( no carbonation) like our grandfathers would have made it ,I like drinks in general and beer in particular. since with beer , brewing its more complicated and a little bit expensive , I...