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Thats what I want. I want a really red brew. I thought warrior hops would be fun to use with a red ale and I could name it something interesting.. also I just love the deep red color.

Thanks for the input steve

Wow, thanks so much for all the great advice! I guess now that I look at my previous recipes, 9 oz is a lot. However my favorite beer I've ever made had 7 oz of falconers hops (I think that's what it's called), so it doesn't seem too outrageous. But I'm guessing those are more well rounded and...

Hi everyone, just looking for some advice. Ever since I tried the Big Red Coq from Brewery Vivant, I wanted to try my hand at a hoppy red ale. I love ipa's, thats sort of what im going for. I thought I would try a variation of this recipe -...

Called them and they gave me an email. I emailed and they never replied. Oh well.

Cool, sounds like it should work out fine as long as no bugs can get in :) I wouldn't do it at my place because I don't have a dedicated room for that stuff and there's always bugs in my house. Spiders, flies, ants, fruit flies, etc.

Thanks! So based on that I think two cups of sugar should add roughly .015 gravity. That would put my cider at 7.35%.

Woah I had no idea it could get that low. By the way im not using a traditional yeast. Its an english ale leftover from a beer I made (WLP002).

Oh I know, I was just saying that in order to keep the sweetness that you want, you would need to prime before bottling. Otherwise obviously it would be dryer after bottle conditioning. But I guess thats too dangerous anyway, lol. I just bottled some cider that was at 1.004. Still tasted sweet...

Oh I see. Yeah it didnt really foam up much. It doesnt really have any beer qualities that I can detect. So does hops go well with cider? I suppose I could dry hop the gallon of it I left out. I really dont think ill want it any dryer now that I think about it.. it seems like its pretty high...

Man, I refrigerated the cider from my test tube. Its sooo good. I definitely taste the blueberries/blackberries. I used 40 grams of brown sugar for 1.6 gallons. Hope that will do the trick. Maybe I'll figure out how much higher than 5.28 the abv really is later. If anyone knows a good calculator...

It's at 1.004, and it tastes good. That would put it at 5.28% ABV, minus the two cups of brown sugar I threw in after taking down the SG. I think I'm going to rack a gallon into a growler and let it ferment dry, then mix in some more brown sugar and bottle the rest.

I thought you needed an airlock to practice good sanitation and to keep from oxygenating, are you using something different?

Its half full in a 5 gallon carboy. Im going to rack it today to get it off the yeast cake and fruit. By the way, I took a gravity reading before fermenting, but then I added two cups of brown sugar. Is there any way to get a rough estimate on how much that would add to the gravity? Kind of a...

I've only made one batch so far so im no expert, but im assuming once the cider tastes sweet enough, you could add a little priming sugar (or any sugar really) and bottle it. Just make sure its mixed up good before bottling and keep opening one every 2-3 days until its carbonated enough and...

I think its fine if you use champagne yeast, actually it seems like most will recommend it. But it will ferment dry so if you want sweetness youll have to compensate by back-sweetening. An ale yeast might be easier in the long run though because you dont have the extra step.

Pretty sure its stayed around 68-70. (Edit) - Fahrenheit

Well if they arent willing to pay the flat cost then whatever, let them go buy beer for 2-3 times as much. I bought a 6 pack of hopslam for $16 then filled up the same bottles with a delicious homebrew ipa (that was even better IMO) which cost me about a dollar per bottle. Edit - yeah I didnt...

I'm thinking about racking it.. hard to tell by looking but I wonder if the fruit is going to mold.

So I made this extract amber ale recipe: 1/2# carapils 1/2# Victory 3/4# Caramel 80 A basic Amber LME 1 oz Northern Brewer dual purpose hops 60m 1 oz Kent golding aroma hops 10m English Ale yeast (in a vial) (WLP002) Then I added some blueberries and blackberries to secondary 3 days...