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Haven't posted in a while, and this is not close to my first batch of cider but I'm having some trouble with a current batch of cider. I used 5 gallons of cider, half a cup of white and half a cup of brown sugar, along with 1/4 cup of raw honey. I pitched a pack of wyeast sweet mead/cider...

So I have 5 gallons of cider in my primary sitting at just above 1.000. I put 5 gallons of juice and 16oz of blackberries in the primary around 4 weeks ago. My plan is to add another 16oz of fresh blackberries and 1/2 oz or calypso hops to the secondary, I plan on freezing/soaking the...

Im looking for plants/rhizomes to plant in our new home and I can't find them anywhere, anyone have extras they could part with/sell?

Looking to backsweeten and bottle carbonate 1 1/2 gal of cider. Is it the basic 1oz of sugar per 1 gallon of Cider to properly carbonate?

I want to start making rootbeer and I came across some extract "kits" and I was wondering if after it is done fermenting and bottle carbonated can it be stored for a while (weeks-months) for conditioning without the worry of bottle bombs as long as I stove top pasturize when the desired carbon...

I recently just bottled my imperial IPA, and I had a little over 5 gallons of liquid in the carboy so I racked that on top of 5 ounces of priming sugar. Well I dry hopped it with leaf hops and only got 4 1/2 gallons into the bottling bucket before everything got clogged and i didn't want to suck...

Ok, so I followed the stove top pasturizing process today and I'm putting one case in the fridge and one case in the closet to condition/age until I finish off the first case. With following that sticky 190° +/-a few for ten minutes, there is no way that the fermentatiom will pick back up...

i read upstatemike's recipe for his caramel apple cider (the updated version) and he adds 3 cans of FAJC. now what my question is, i'm going to ferment my 5 gallons of cider dry and than back sweeten and bottle carb, i read that i could use right around 1 ounce of priming sugar per gallon...

i decided on a whim to make a batch of hard cider (more for my wife than i). 5 gallons of pasturized cider, no preservatives, 2 cups of sugar and some caramel flavor. i think this time it'll be non carbonated (maybe) if i decide that its non carbonated, can i just put it back in the jugs it...

Found this great beer at a bar over the weekend and thought to myself hmmm, this would be great to have 50 bottles of. Does anyone a 5gal recipe for this wonderful beer?

so, i've got these floaties in my beer and some have dropped, some are suspended (pictured) and some are floating at the top, not really sure what to call them, but it looks like couscous was dumped into the beer. i want to say it's yeast, but from my extremely limited knowledge i'm not entirely...

is there a timeline between when a blowoff tube is used and it being switched out to an airlock? to clarify, i put a blow off tube on my fermenter for the first week, now that the fermentation has slowed down (no bubbles in the bucket with the tube and liquid) do i HAVE to switch to and...

So, brewed an arrogant bastard clone tonight....lets just say it didn't go well....boiled too much off, topped off to just a little over 5 gallon, which was too much water. Took a hydrometer reading and it was 1.035. The og was supposed to be 1.075 Guess I brewed the first arrogant...

So I've done some searching and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for: The directions I Have are (to me) only somewhat clear as this is only my second batch. After I steep the grains for 30 minutes do I than bring the steeped liquid back to a boil after the grains are out? Also, put 2...

I found this turkey fryer at Walmart near me for 40 $ http://www.walmart.com/ip/30-Quart-Propane-Turkey-Fryer-Set/13059419 I know it's just a cheap pot, and will need to upgrade, but I figure it's a good way to start doing 5 gal batches. My question is, do I need to do anything special...

Cracked open my very first small batch of beer this last weekend and I must say I was VERY pleased with the way it turned out! Carbonation seemed perfect, color was good, very hoppy yet very smooth. Brewed from an extract kit (1.25 gallons, 12 bottles) and instead of dry hopping with the...

Just curious, what is considered double or triple hopped beers? Is it the amount of times hops are added during the boil or the amount of different hops uses? I made An ipa and added hops three times during the boil and dry hopped during fermentation. What would that classify it as? Triple...

So I bought myself a "small batch home brew" kit because I only have enough room/money for a small kit. Anyways, I was very good about sanitizing EVERYTHING when brewing, but when I went to dry hop the beer I forgot to sanitize the hop net before throwing it in the fermenter! is there ANY way...