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If you're in MI this weekend this is a great event. I've been past 2 years (8 miles from home). http://www.greatlakescider.com/ciderfest.html They advertise over 100 ciders and perrys for sampling. $15 / person includes 10-5oz pours and you keep the souveineer glass.........yup you leave...

Someone finally found an appropriate use for BMC.........rinsing off the roadways. http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/budweiser-truck-spills-beer

Today I backsweetened a cocoa mead I started in April. I used the local wildflower unprocessed honey that I mostly use for everything. It is normally quite crystallized when I get it. I've never had an issue dissolving it in warm water when starting a mead. Today I added 1/2 lb to 1 gallon...

I just tappped into my Vanilla Cyser from last fall and it may be my best yet. I fermented 5 gallons fresh pressed juice with 5 lbs local raw honey. I started in late Oct and left in primary until early March. I racked into a carboy with 2 Tbsp real Vanilla extract and it sat until June. I...

My wife and I are on a week long winery tour through the Niagara Ont, Finger Lakes NY, and South Erie wine regions. There are a lot of wineries out here folks!!! We stopped in and visited fellow HBT'er LEBRETON today at Bellwether Ciders on Cayuga Lake. What a pleasant time we had. He is a...

I dropped and busted my hydrometer last night while doing some custodial duties in the brewroom. Nearest LHBS is 45 miles. This morning I mixed up a batch can anyone give me a ballpark SG? I suck at formulas. sugars 2 gallons walmart apple juice (896 g sugar) 2 lbs...

My son's and I got together today for a fathers day brew. We brewed a 10 gal batch of an English Brown Ale and a 5 gal IPA concoction we hope to enter in a contest at our next club meeting.

I have a buddy that drives garbage truck. His company has the contract for a local university. He said in the week that students were moving out for the summer he picked up 5 mini fridges that all worked and 3 decent couches......Students apparently were too lazy or just didn't have the cargo...

I had to run into Walmart to grab a few items this morning. As I'm entering the store and pushing my cart past row where they have all of their "HOT" deals I see 100% apple juice, no sugar added, only preservative abscorbic acid, 64 oz jugs 2 for $3. WOW 3 bucks a gallon for apple juice. All of...

I started a batch of Skeeter Pee yesterday with a twist. I had a 1 lb bag of 40L caramel malt lying around. I wanted to add some malt to the pee so I ground it up in my coffee grinder and did a mini-mash on the stove top. I'd heard of spent grain bread and had been wanting to try it. I made...

It is finally coming together. I need to get some of the excess junk out of the space but it finally feels usable. Couple more pics to follow. There is wine in carboy in 1st pic, 2nd pic has cider in the bucket, Honey wheat beer in the carboy and a gallon of welches juice wine. Can't see it but...

Has anybody heard any reports on the status of the apple crop in their area? I've heard that Michigan lost 90% of the apple and tart cherry crop due to late frost. I'm afraid this will make fresh pressed juice horribly expensive in my area.

I have a question for the experienced cider makers that keg. Do you prefer to ferment dry and backsweeten or to attempt to stop fermentation at desired FG by cold crashing and or stabilizing? I'd appreciate your input as to why you prefer your favorite method. :mug:

I spent the afternoon in the cellar racking and sampling last falls ciders......I got a definite buzz going on The good news is..........all are tasty.

I have a cyser stbilized with sorbate and sulphite. It fermented dry, I then added 1 can of frozen concentrate (5.71 ounces sugar) by my calculations. This brought it to 1.004. I want to go to 1.025. How do I calculate how much sugar I need?

Here is my process and recipe: 12# local wildflower honey boiled 1 1/2 hours to a deep butterscotch color. Transferred to fermentation bucket with water added to make 5 gallons. OG was 1.08 2 packets D47 rehydrated in 1 cup water added 1 cup of my must waited a few hours and pitched...

I froze 1/2 gallon of my mulled/spiced cider. Prefrozen it was a bit on the spicy side. Postfrozen it is really spicy. I am going to let it age for awhile see what happens. The quart jar was obviously the first qt thawed and the 1/2 gal jar was the second.

I've spent most of the day in the "cellar" I racked all of my fall cider from the primaries to the secondaries. I have: 6 1/2 gallons of cyser finsished dry racked onto 1 can of apple concentrate 3 gal cyser racked onto 1 lb corn sugar 3 gal cyser racked onto tbs of real vanilla extract 2...

I am relatively new to brewing. I have a theory I would like input on. I want to develop a system to make sweet sparkling cider, bottled into beer bottles without pasteurization. For this to work a person would want to create a very repeatable recipe with consistant fermenting conditions...

Interesting read.......all the more reasons to find a local bee keeper. Most Store-Bought Honey Isn