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I have been making cider for over a year now. I usually start them, let them go a week or so and drink it. When I first started making cider I made a 5 gallon batch. That was over a year ago. I wanted to age it and just let it chill. To be fair, because it was over the period of a year...

I have been looking on here for a while, and I have not found any guide on making a bottling bucket. I have a 5 gallon bucket and I want to add a spigot to it to bottle. What do I need to buy from a place like Home Depot to put it together? I have little knowledge on "home depot" type...

My wife and I are enjoying brewing very much. We do extracts for now and it is working well. The only complaint we have is after cooling the wort, we have a hard time separating the hops from the wort. Typically how we do it is use a funnel and some kind of a filter. We have tried coffee...

I just transferred my pumpkin beer from my primary to my secondary. I took a sample and tasted it. It tastes like beer, and it has a small amount of alcohol by taste. I screwed up in the beginning and did not take a correct gravity reading. Not even in the ball park. So I have no idea what I...

I am going to be making a cider in a few days and am trying to make a starter. I have some safale-05 that I tried to wash from an IPA. I dont think I washed it 100% correctly because I got many different layers... Anyhow this is what I did: Got an apple juice container, emptied out...

Ok I just wanted to verify everything I know and think to make this work: I have exactly 5 gallons of Treetop 100% apple juice sitting around. No preservatives, but it is pasteurized. I have tons of table sugar. I have safale-05 yeast from an IPA I did before. First how much sugar...

I am on my second batch (an IPA), and I was looking at one of the infection threads. I want to dry hop it but am now afraid of getting an infection from adding the hops after I rack it to a secondary. Is there a way to minimize the chance of infection or should I even worry about it?