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So a funny thing happend on the way to bottling my oaked, aged cider. I think I wound up with an infection from not fully sterilizing the oak cubes I used (home toasted oak). This cider started as a variant of Graham's English cider about and kinda took off from there. It has aged for about four...

I was doing a bit of reseach and reading trying to up my knowledge about unfermentable sugars today and I came across a reference from 1997 on the mad fermentationist website about making homemade carmel for brewing using karo corn syrup and diammonium phosphate: "The homemade caramel was...

Yup, another in a long list of requests for feedback on labels ;) I kinda working on a bit of a theme here with my brew labels....a bit of a homage to SWMBO if you will. This is based partially on her willingness to put up with me spending money we don't have on brew stuff and largely on the...

Okay, so I have a theoretical question about cold crashing, stabilizing, and back sweetening. A lot of the commentary and experience on this forum seems to suggest that there are two predominant methods of creating a sweet cider if you are not setup with a kegging system. The first is to allow...

So a couple of months back I made an apfelwein and when I racked it to secondary I got a little crazy with the idea of okaing it. Having gone to my LHB I wasn't really happy with the oak chips they had for sale. Instead of purchasing there I made a trip over the to specialty woodworking store...

Been doing a little bit of experimenting with the whole graf, apple wine and Graham's English cider ideas: 4 gallons Publix organic aple juice 1.5 lb unprocessed local orange blossom honey 1.5 lb amber lme juice of 3 lemons Lipton sun tea cold steeped in 1.5L of Martinelli's OG was...

Okay so I have approximately ~6-7 gallons of cider chillin' in my fridge and need a little assistance in finishing it up. The cider is comprised of organic cider, lemon juice black tea, and very dark brown unrefined sugar. Montrachet yeast was used and at the time it was added the gravity...

Been doing tons of reading on the forum over the last week or so, much to my wife’s amusement, and was hoping to get some feedback on the recipe outlined below recipe. My specific question deals with the interaction of tea, brown sugar, lemon. I understand that the tea will contribute...