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So my first mead has now spent 3 months in secondary. I've read 50/50 advice about when to rack mead in secondary- some say at this point and others that I should just ignore the carboy until it's covered in the grime of ages and seven snows have fallen. Is there any long-term risk to not...

Made my first 5 gallon batch recently. Initial ingredients were 4.5gal of apple juice and 6 tubes of concentrate. All was well and good and at 1 month it tasted like a pretty typical young cider. Bottled about 4 days ago with 5 more tubes and 1 cup of maple syrup. In the past I've had very...

So a while back I started a concentrate-based cider per this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/ice-cider-384368/ It's in secondary now. I believe the end product has arrested its own fermentation from alcohol content; when I tasted it after a month of primary it was still extremely...

So a while ago I decided to make a beer. I put in the hours of boil and toil and being yelled at by the wife about hop-stink, and set my beer to rest in the utility closet. I burned myself rather badly sparging and for some reason did not worry at all. It would only get worse. About 3 days...

I've been making cider for about a year now. Generally my end product has been as folks here describe it: initially very harsh, requiring months of carboy aging to take on a desirable flavor, and a month or so of bottle aging to lose the hot alcohol nose. BUT... Way back when, my very second...

So I started a stout a couple days ago. This is my first beer (and given my wife's reaction to the smell, perhaps my last) and I had some questions: There is a LOT of sediment in my carboy right now (3 pounds of grain to 1 gallon of water will do that I guess). Do I need to worry about...

So I've had 3 batches in for the long haul: a blackberry cider, a cyser, and a traditional cider that hasn't been behaving itself and getting mellow. I'm giving the traditional cider a full 6 months to think about what it's done, and the cyser maybe longer, but today it was time to try the...

I had a lot of extra honey sitting around so I started a gallon cider batch with 1lb of honey dissolved in it. So far fermentation has gone much more slowly than I experienced with sugar- it's been about 48 hours and only periodic bubbles unless the jug is swirled. HOWEVER, it's developing much...

Hi, all; long time lurker, first time poster. I just recently started with my first two batches of cider and have some questions about each. I'm following this recipe ATM, including the instructions for back carbonation. Yeast is Nottingham ale yeast. Batch 1 is sitting in bottles now waiting...