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When I transferred it, it smelled just fine. I cant remember if I tasted it or not, but if I did taste it, than it must have been fine or else I would remember it. So I take it that if it smells fine and tastes fine, than its fine? Roger that.

I have been making cider for over a year now. I usually start them, let them go a week or so and drink it. When I first started making cider I made a 5 gallon batch. That was over a year ago. I wanted to age it and just let it chill. To be fair, because it was over the period of a year...

I have been looking on here for a while, and I have not found any guide on making a bottling bucket. I have a 5 gallon bucket and I want to add a spigot to it to bottle. What do I need to buy from a place like Home Depot to put it together? I have little knowledge on "home depot" type...

My wife and I are enjoying brewing very much. We do extracts for now and it is working well. The only complaint we have is after cooling the wort, we have a hard time separating the hops from the wort. Typically how we do it is use a funnel and some kind of a filter. We have tried coffee...

I just transferred my pumpkin beer from my primary to my secondary. I took a sample and tasted it. It tastes like beer, and it has a small amount of alcohol by taste. I screwed up in the beginning and did not take a correct gravity reading. Not even in the ball park. So I have no idea what I...

I'll enter, thx!

Alright so I used 2 lbs brown sugar, and 5 gallons treetop apple juice (no preservatives). I used some safale-05 I washed from an IPA. Made a starter, and took a sample and tasted the starter, tasted great! I did this on 1-24. Now I'm starting to get a little worried. The airlock is...

Yup your dead on Hex. I took the gravity of my starter it was about 1.046. I then took the gravity of pure apple juice, and it was 1.050 just like you said. I then tasted it and i thought it tasted fantastic! Almost like sparkling cider with a tinge of alcohol. Mixed in 2 pounds brown sugar...

Thank you storunner. My IPA went great, the apple juice smells stonger of the yeast/alcohol/apples today, even though there is not much of a cake on the bottom. I am going to move ahead tonight and put it all in the carboy. I will compare hydrometer readings on newly opened apple juice vs the...

I didnt check so much for gunk on the bottom of the jar when I started, so im not sure if there is more now. I am using Treetop 100% apple juice (no preservatives). I smelled it and it smells alcholish to me, but I'm worried this could be from what I added with the washed yeast. My wife...

I am going to be making a cider in a few days and am trying to make a starter. I have some safale-05 that I tried to wash from an IPA. I dont think I washed it 100% correctly because I got many different layers... Anyhow this is what I did: Got an apple juice container, emptied out...

I tried this method with my last cake but I made a mistake. I didnt decant very much and have ended up with a 1 inch sediment layer the bottom with a 1/8 inch white layer of yeast. Its been chillin in my fridge for about a month. I am going to try and make a cider from this, should I try and...

Ok I just wanted to verify everything I know and think to make this work: I have exactly 5 gallons of Treetop 100% apple juice sitting around. No preservatives, but it is pasteurized. I have tons of table sugar. I have safale-05 yeast from an IPA I did before. First how much sugar...

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Yea i soaked the bag in Iodophor before I put it in there. (wrang it out well though)