I like it both ways. My wife likes it carbonated and kegged better. Easy choice for me seeing how easy it is to keg.
I started a batch yesterday with 3 year old packs of Montrachet. I used two, but we will see how it goes. I do have some new ones getting delivered soon.
Just pitched into 5.5 gallons of the original that I made yesterday. I used a starter of red star DADY because I have a ton of it. Anyone have experience using distillers yeast for this stuff?
Made this today for the first time. Got 10.5 lbs sugar and a little over 4 gallons of apple juice into the fermentor. All that I had was Montrachet, so that's what I pitched. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
The crush looks okay to me. I have my own mill and condition my grains, I like a pretty fine crush. With a huge beer much efficiency is lost due to usually using a very small amount of sparge water. That's my experience though. I just adjust my recipe accordingly for those big ones.