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    Might've gone overboard...

    I think I might've overestimated how far Wyeast's 4632 Dry Mead Yeast would go. 19 pounds of honey later, my OG read a whopping 1.135 back in September; this morning's reading (late January) was 1.058, which I believe still puts me in the "sickly sweet" end of things? Now I'm wondering if...
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    "Yeah, there's some honey in there, too...."

    :ban: So my wife, who just started keeping bees (yay!) was given some equipment from a colleague who just stopped keeping bees -- a neat pile of old-school gear, including a 100-year-old centrifuge. And a big food-safe bucket. "Yeah, there's some honey in there, too," he told her. "It's a...
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    Last year's yeast?

    So I did a bunch of experiments with wild yeasts last year, and actually wound up with several bottles of something I liked quite a bit. I've been reading about the harvesting process, and intuitively it seems a little overcomplicated for cider making. Is there any compelling reason I can't...
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    24 days of wild yeast (many pics)....

    This was the last picking off the tree out back, a little more than two gallons of juice that did some interesting things in the carboy, to say the least. Basically just juiced the apples and put it in a glass carboy, as I'd had good luck with wild yeasts from that tree earlier. Around Day...
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    Experimenting with crashing at different SGs, bottlebomb question:

    My final batch is turning into an experimental one. :ban: I've got a great cloudy fizzy mess of wild yeasties going, and I'm planning to pull and fill several small PET bottles' worth out as things progress, to see where I like the taste -- take an SG reading, pull out a bottle's worth, let...
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    Spoke too soon (wild yeast no-go)

    So my second batch of "just juice" went through a few gyrations in 10 days, and offered a bubble or two, but when I checked the SG today it was actually a touch higher than when I started! For reference, here's how my brewing history has gone: - Batch 1: Picked apples, juiced them, put...
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    Some old-school cider making instructions

    Howdy all! I've been reading this forum with much interest and gratitude the past several weeks, as I've embarked on my first season of doing something constructive with the apples my tree gives me. :) For the record I've got a wild yeast cider carbonating in bottles in the closet as we...
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