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I'm trying out my first batch of cider and it has turned bright orange. I bought regular apple cider from an orchard that started out fairly brown as you'd expect. I used a campden tablet per gallon to sterilize. After adding the tablets, the particulate matter in the cider began to settle out...

I attempted my first AG barleywine about two weeks ago and decided to take a gravity reading to see how it was doing. The OG was 1.091 and 12 days in the gravity had dropped to 1.013. I had been expecting, after everything I'd read about making big beers, to have problems getting the FG down in...

I've been using this site for a while and figured it was about time to say hi. Fortunately, I was given some secondhand equipment, but it left me the daunting task of delving immediately into all grain. I'm a few months into it and so far so good. I obviously have a lot of questions. I trust you...

Has anyone else out there had issues with wyeast. So far I have bought 3 packs and none of them have worked at all. I have use primarily white lab yeast but decided to try out wyeast; it was a total bust. Not one has inflated after breaking the nurtient pack. The first time was an activator pack...