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I'll just say that things have gotten a little out of hand here lately. I had been collecting ingredients for all of these different ideas I had, and then the local grocer had apple juice on sale. The next thing you know I have: (All 5 or 6 gallon batches at various stages of completion)...

As a follow up to an earlier question I asked (but I thought this deserved it's own thread) I've found what seems to be a good resource for cider for cidermaking/winemaking. Sweetland Orchard in Webster, MN seems to be a very brewer friendly outfit. Yesterday I met the husband of the owning...

Since we are now into apple season up here, I've been looking for a cider mill or orchard from which I could get a decent juice for cider making. A few years ago I was able to get frozen (unpasteurized) juice from Minnesota Harvest Orchard by calling ahead, but I haven't been able to get anyone...

So back before I knew anything about anything, and I was just getting into home brewing because my father-in-law did it, I started a batch of Cyser. I didn't know that was what I was making at the time, but I was experimenting and thought, "Hey, I like honey, and I like cider, why not use honey...

I recently came into a chest freezer for free and was thinking about investing in a temp control so that I could brew at lager temps. I have heard that a cooler, slower ferment produces a much better product when it comes to cider/apfelwein. Any advice on brewing cider/apfelwein at lager...

After making wine for a few years I'm going to try my hand at a Madeira. In order to recreate the estufagem process, I'll need to develop a method of heating the wine to about 130 degrees f, and holding it there for about three months. There was a plan in an old wine making book that...

Once you have your brew bottled, how do YOU store the bottles? Currently I just stand them all up inside a rubbermaid bin. I was thinking about making a wooden bottle case based on the designs of the old soda bottle cases. Anybody have any other good ideas?

Last week I racked off my first two batches into glass carboys. Due to some kind of discrepancy in my Cyser, I had to add back about two pints of juice in order to raise the level in the carboy, so it had abubbling ferment going for about the past week. But my Perry had fermented out to...

I bought a bottle of St. Sebastiaan Grand reserve tonight and it comes in a real neat 16oz ceramic swing top bottle. I thought to myself, "this would be the perfect thing to bottle my farmhouse cider in" (since I have been looking for a unique bottling option) but unfortunaly, they cost about...

I wanted to get into homebrewing, and I really like cider and heard that it was easier than beer, so I thought I would give it a shot. I bought a starter kit from Midwest Supplies: Fermenting Bucket, Racking/bottling bucket, 5 gal. carboy, and all the little accessories. I found a couple...