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Ok, so I'm making a cyser, but that isn't the focus of this post. I had about half a gallon left of my apple juice, and due to my fridge being broken (damn this apartment complex!) I immediately closed the apple juice bottle and placed it on my counter. 3 days later the apple juice...

First off, I came up with this recipe, and I apologize if its the same as any other recipe. Ingredients: 1 fuji apple diced 1 lemon diced store brand apple juice sprig of rosemary 1 can apple juice concentrate (I bought the cheapest frozen one I think it was the saratoga one?) 1.5...

I was just curious if anyone has tried adding fruits such as strawberries, cherries, blueberries etc to edwort's apfelwein recipe? If I was to try it, do you think I should add fruit to the primary or secondary? or both?

Hello, quick question, so I enjoy brewing meads and wines mainly, and i recently bought a food safe bucket from lowes. However, they did not have a food safe lid to go along with it. Is it ok to use a non food safe bucket since the must/wort/whatever would not come into physical contact with...

Hello, quick question about what sanitizer i should buy. At a local tractor supply store, they have two different sanitizers one label reads: Ingredients: 7% active ingredients provided by iodine, potassium iodide and providone iodine. Provides 2.4% titratable iodine. The second...

Hey, a few weeks ago I posted how I was antsy to bottle some fruity honey beers. I still have some slight fermentation going and I havent taken any readings, (though I will tomorrow) My question for you guys is, what final gravity is it safe to bottle at without priming and allow it to...

So i just gave my caramel apple cider after starting it about 8 days ago. Its the first cider ive ever made. heres my very loosely organized notes caramel Cider 3 gallons apple juice .75 lb sugar .5 lb honey 1/4 teaspoon of ginger, anise, caraway, nutmeg, coriander 1/2 teaspoon of...

So im trying to come up with a recipe for a pomegranate cider, it's pretty basic. I found a bottle of pomegranate molasses (cortas pomegranate molasses 10 oz's) at a local middle eastern grocery store. I'm thinking about using this in lieu of sugar. in addition to this, just about a...

Ok, so I'm kind of antsy and want to bottle different fruit braggots (peach, raspberry and blueberry) that I started 2 weeks ago. The general ingredients for the brew, for a 1 gallon batch, was 1.5 pounds of honey, 1 pound of light malt and a pound of fruit in light syrup. I used safbrew...