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Before you all condemn me to hell, I already had all the supplies (store bought juice, nothing fancy). I racked my cocoa and vanilla mead over to a secondary today and it left a whole lot of trub at the bottom of the primary fermenter. It was mostly cocoa which had fallen out of solution...

Hi guys, hoping that you can help me out with a mead I have going. It's a cocao and vanilla mead that I am making for December 2012 (my end of the world mead). I've been thinking that I would love it to have a kind of cookie-type flavour along with the vanilla and cocao. How would I go about...

This is intended as an easy, beginners caramel cider. As a lot of beginner brewers are still trying to get their methods correct, I have designed this to be quite sweet to mask any off flavours. For a 1 gal batch: Ingredients: 2 cups raw sugar 250 ml honey 1 gal Apple Juice/Cider (preservative...

Hi all, some of you may have been following the Caramel Apple Cider thread which I was posting in. Long story short, I have had nothing but a success with this and thought you might want to know how I did it. For a 1 gal batch: Ingredients: 4 cups raw sugar (I would believe that the sugar is...

Hi all, I had no idea where else to post this other than here. I think I may have a strain of mutated superyeast straight from a nuclear reactor. :rockin: I was fairly new to homebrewing a year or two ago, and got into making some cider (I live near an orchard, why not?). I took a trip to my...

Hey guys, I'm insanely jealous of all of you that have the pleasure of tasting others homebrew. I'm looking for someone to trade with, whether local or not (although, postage would be a little costly I guess?). I have some apfelwein, some apple and blackcurrant cider and if you're willing to...

So I was at my local orchard grabbing some more juice for a plain ol' hard apple cider when I stumbled upon some preservative-free apple and blackcurrant juice. Bought 18 litres, pasteurised, added 1.5kg brown sugar, 0.5kg white sugar and pitched some champagne yeast. OG was around 1.080. Has...

Hi guys, I'm just starting to finish up my first ever brew. I just tested the FG of the brew, and it turned out at about 1.089 (OG 1.102), and yes I know, it was WAY too strong for a classic cider, but it was more of an experiment rather than anything else. This was also before I found this...

Hi guys, I just stumbled upon this site http://***********/resources/hops?style=26. Quite helpful if you are confused as to which hops to use/need a different branding if you are restricted (as I usually am when I read all of these American ingredients). It gives suggestions for which hops to...