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    Bottled fruitflies.

    Ok, this is what happened. After a couple of days of no bubbles in the airlock I thought I had killed my yeast so I was going to repitch it. When I opened the fermenter it was clearly fermenting so I took a hydro reading to make sure, and it was. I then noticed the grommet was torn on the...
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    Apples

    If I add apples to my wort while it's boiling will they act like a fermentable and make the ABV% higher? Also, if I use mollasses or honey as a fermentable, when do I add them? In the boiling wort, or in the fermentation bucket before I pitch the yeast?
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    Amount of DME?

    Last month I used a kit for my first time brewing. The recipe in the kit called for 2.5# of DME. This month, my second time brewing, I'm using the kit recipe as a base and changing a few things Replacing Willamette with US Fuggle etc). I could only find 3# bags of DME. If I use the full 3#...
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    Alcohol content

    I'm totally new at this and I've made my first batch. The problem is I forgot to take my initial gravity reading. Before I bottled it the reading was 1.010 It's been 3 weeks, I opened a bottle, carbonated beautifully, tastes wonderful. but I took a gravity reading and it goes up to 1.036...
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