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oh, and use nottingham or ec1118....good for acidic fruits

One of my favs is a pineapple! and have done over 65 flavors...1 frozen per 5 gal...ive added a wee bit o cardamon at times and its awesome.Girls love it with bubbles indeed. theres a frozen mango pineapple that is awesome too. bring it up to 9% and you have a panty dropper on your hands..be...

Done more than 50 gallons so far outa maybe 450 with FAJ...I feel it dosent store as well as fresh pressed. gets a bit dull after a yearish.So if you want quick cider, use it. But if you have a desire to make killer cider,use unfiltered,unpasturized,organic juice...and in the middle of that is...

That much molasses will give it quite a malty overtone in my experiance. its a touchy additive.too little and you dont notice. and a little more and it overpowers and you find yourself mixing it with a bland batch.And than you mix those two recipe's and you get a WINNER!!! [maybe]

A orchard here let me pick the rebels that were still hanging on the tree after 5 good frosts and got 1.071. And there's Apple ice wine,where the apples are left on the trees till it's 20 below and than picked.....I picked dessert apples/fuji/honeycrisp/red delicious. Had to add to some frozen...

You didnt ask a question,but i think the one you could ask is...Is there too much headspace???

IF you are using a clear carboy,you can set the siphon hose just above the lee's and leave 98% behind.If you do it ,1st rack and secondary,theres minimal left to float. Empty the lee's into a clear gallon jug/wait 2 days and pour off remaining juice into a plastic bottle/freeze. Now you have...

Doing the funky press dance!!

Doing the funky press dance!!

doing it!!

IF youre using bread yeast ,i'd get it off day 1!!!!

Yaamon!!!!

I ve had 2 draft Angry orchard and i cant believe it made it to the market....Sharp and little, if any flavor to speak of. thankfully all our tastebuds are different. I have about 25 different flavors in the cellar and will put AO to shame if you ask me and my friends.Thats why i'm going...

saranac...i have just started the daunting task of getting all that lovely paperwork in order. Oregon has a Nanobrewery category that I'll fit into to get my feet wet. Kinda takes a wee bito fun outa brewing indeed........

Makes sense to me....Am going to put a half gal. of everclear in it and roll slightly every few days to remove some of the smokyness. My buds did it and said the result was good. Dont mind the oaky,but no smoky. Do i fill with water/k-meta during the short time empty?