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Hey all...I posted in the cider forum too, but I realize this was probably a better place for my question: I have a ~5 gallon batch of cider that has fermented down to a SG of 1.008. If I bottle now without priming sugar in beer bottles, is there any danger of me getting bottle bombs? I was...

I fermented a batch of cider this year that I think tastes better than any other I have made in the past. Even better, I pressed the cider at a friend's place who has a small orchard and got the juice for free. It included a bunch of different apples, and even some crab apples. Anyway, it...

Hey Fellas! Tomorrow I was gonna rack off a somewhat botched (but still tasty) ESB brew to secondary and thought I would brew up something quick to put on top of the healthy ESB yeast cake that is in my fermenter. I have 2 cans of John Bull prehopped Light extract that someone gave me...

Hey all! I was gonna make a yeast starter today. This is the first time I have made a starter, and also I don't have a lot of my homebrew equipment here (including scale and hydrometer). I have a couple questions. 1. This starter is for an ESB but I was gonna use dried wheat extract...

While I was away for a couple weeks over the holidays, my homebrew stash suffered a major mouse attack. My wife got home before me and cleaned it up, so I didn't actually see the carnage. Mostly it was several bags of dried malt extract that was attacked but there was also some crystal malt...

Hey Cider makers! I tried my hand at some ciders for the first time this fall. I made a total of 3 batches, and all of them have turned out with an unpleasant after taste that I could best describe as plasticy. The recipes for the 3 batches all varied somewhat, but here are the basics: I...

Hey there, I have been reading the forums here on and off for a while, and just thought I would say hi. I am pretty new to homebrewing, starting my 7th batch soon, but I am having a blast with it. I split my time between Jersey City, NJ and Wellsboro, PA. Looking forward to lots of good...

Hey there everyone, I am a new homebrewer (this is my 4th batch). This weekend I bottled my first batch of cider, using a mix of 12 recycled Champagne bottles (of various kinds), and the rest in beer bottles. For the Champagne bottles, I used plastic stoppers, which I had to hammer in, and...