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Do you need to shake a keg to get it carbonated? I kegged a batch yesterday, turned the psi up to 30 and threw it in my kegerator. Its been in there 24 hours now. I did not shake it though. Should I? My plan is/was to keep the psi at 30 for 48 hours and then release it and test for...

I am looking for a commercial Kegerator that will hold 2 full corny's (5 gallon) and looks good enough to have out in my game room. I know I could save alot of money making one myself, but I would rather pay a little extra for something preassembled that hopefully has a warranty of some kind...

Here is my planned recipe: 5 Gallons Member's Mark Apple Juice (Sam's Club) - No preservatives 4 Cans Old Orchard Frozen Apple Juice Concentrate - Only Malic and Absorbic Acid Yeast Nutrient - LD Carlson Brand package says 1tsp per gallon of must(so 5 tsp) Cider Activator Wyeast ACT4766...

Can you bottle the same way you do beer? With no fermentation(no CO2) do you have to use the oxygen absorbing caps? Should I fill bottles right to the top to eliminate as much headspace as possible?

Are there any concerns I should have with how much foam I create while using a stirring adapter on a drill? (other than spilling over the top of my fermentor)

The other day I racked to a tertiary carboy, 6.5 gallons of cider. The cider had been sitting on 1/2 inch of lees for over a month and a half and had become completely clear. I ended up needing to top off using about 1/2 gallon of juice because I accidently stirred up a bunch of sediment and...

I have an electric stove that i use for boiling my wort. Because I have trouble maintaining a rolling boil I had to insulate my boiling pot. Somthing similiar to https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/improved-boiling-stovetop-53683/ , but I used automotive firewall material which works awesome...

I am planning on trying this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f80/strawberry-cabana-mead-32421/ Would you get a stronger strawberry flavor by adding the fruit in a secondary? Could I make my secondary a plastic ale bucket so getting 18lbs of strawberry's into it would be easy? If I...

I made a sam adam's ale clone recipe, which called for dry hopping. I just threw the hops straight in my carboy secondary and waited about 2 weeks for them all to settle to the bottom. So that I would not get any hops into my bottling bucket I wrapped my racking cane in nylon hop bag as a...

Is it better to bulk age or bottle and let it age in the bottle? Does carbonation help a strong cider (cyser in my case) mellow out faster? Am I better off just racking once a month or so until lees stop dropping? The recipe I used was only 1lb of honey per gallon of juice so my cyser...

I racked off 1 gallon onto some blueberries, but I did not wait for the frozen blueberries to warm up! So my cider is essentially on ice right now (2lbs of frozen blueberries). Will my yeast survive the cold?

Is it ok to rack to a secondary before all airlock activity has stopped? It has been one month for my cider and it bubbles once every 20 seconds or so. I plan to rack off a couple gallons into test 1 gallon batchs and then topping off the main. I have some free time this week and I am...

I will be racking my cyser to seconday in a couple weeks and I have a couple questions. Once I rack off the cyser to my secondary can I just add more juice to my primary and the yeast on the bottom will ferment the next batch as well? What about sanitation? How many times can you...

What happens to a beer when it becomes oxidized? I transfered a ale from primary to secondary after 2+ weeks, my seconday was a plastic bucket, and there was no airlock activity after transfer. I waited 2 weeks in secondary and now that I am getting ready to bottle, the beer is alot darker...

Can you get a apple/banana flavor to a cider by adding the fruit to your secondary? If you can use banana's how ripe should they be? How much per gallon would be wise? Does anyone have first hand experience with banana's?

I dry hopped a brew about 10 days ago. I just threw the hops in my secondary (5 gal carboy) and now most of them have sunk to the bottom. How long can I leave the brew in with the hops? If I cannot bottle soon should I rack off of them? Thanks for the help.

I have a 6 gallon batch of Cyser going and want to rack off 2 of the gallons into 1 gallon jugs when primary is done and add some berries. I will have 2, 1 gallon jugs and a 5 gallon carboy for secondaries. Considering any fruit will displace part of the gallon of cyser, what would be a...

I would really like to get into kegging but I have 2 problems. First problem is money - second is space. I would need a kegerator that did not take up alot of room, since it would most likely need to be placed in a utility room. Does anyone know of any good options?

Ok first here is what I have: 6 Gallons Sam's CLub Apple Juice 5 1/2 lbs - Honey Activator pack of Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen I used a blender to disolve the honey into the apple juice and then added to my primary. Fermentation took off almost instantly and is still happily...

What, if any, fruit complements cyser well? Why is fruit generally added in the secondary? Is it so the yeast is mostly done with the other sugars and can focus on the fruit? Or does it have to do with how much time it sits on the yeast/sediment cake?