Recent content by Vaydor

I've been brewing and making cider for years now. Some popular podcasts even question whether or not it even matters if you use sulfites to kill the wild yeast, with expectations that they won't survive alongside the primary strain. It makes me curious, if you don't sulfite your unpasteurized...

Just need to stain the boxes and poles when it dries up.

I built boxes for my new hops. Made sure to give them plenty of space per rhizome. We plan on trellising them over our deck for shade. I'll post pics once I'm finished. Might even plant lettuce or spinach alongside them in the box. Has anyone ever tried that?

I did something similar. I took 11 gallons of fresh pressed cider from our orchard and added a combo of brown and white sugar to get the OG to around 1.070. Broke them into 2.5 G batches and let one ferment wild. Yeasts: -WLP 775 English Cider yeast -Danstar Belle Saison yeast -Lalvin...

New Albanian Brewing Company in New Albany, IN. It's just across the river. Great pizza and beer. We always try to stop there to and from our trips to Indiana.