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I made 2 single gallon batches of cider this summer and spiced them with cinnamon and nutmeg, they both tasted terrible, mostly like nutmeg. So I've gone minimalist and just put 4 gallons of sweet cider in my Carboy with a pack of ec-1118 in there. It seemed like a good choice, anyone used it...

Hi all, I was planning on saving for a keg a system which I still am but after reading around it seemed that temperature controlled fermentation was highly recommended, I live in the south so it's now almost too hot in my house to ferment at all and I decided to try a DIY project to cool my...

Brewed my very first homebrew, an amber ale about 4 weeks ago. It's had 1 week in the primary, 2 weeks in the secondary and 1 week so far in bottles. It's driving me crazy to wait on it to bottle condition, I'm planning on one more week before I taste it. Got so antsy I picked up a 1 gallon...

So I'm still waiting to taste my first batch of homebrew which is bottle conditioning right now, but I want to develop a recipe that highlights the flavors of apple cider and cinnamon donuts that my family would always buy growing up. So imparting apple flavor into beer is simple enough, and...

I brewed my first batch ever from an extract kit by brewers best last night and it's bubbling away in the fermentor now. I used a stainless pot on an electric stove and after all was done I noticed some burned on residue in the bottom of the pot that follows the design of the burner underneath...