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I am using buckets. I did take readings after about 48 hours and then 72 hours and there was little to no change, but it looks like the nutrients have helped.

nope, the juice ingredients say "Apple Cider, and Apple Cider Concentrate"

I picked up some Yeast Energizer, which essentially looks to be yeast nutrients, and tossed in the appropriate amount. I then stirred it up a bit to aerate and things started bubbling pretty quickly. within a few hours it seemed to be making bubbles in the airlock; not as robust as the Motts...

sounds good. I'll check the gravity, and if I'm not satisfied I'll try pitching some yeast, but I'll start the yeast prior like the package says. I also grabbed some Yeast Energizer, so maybe some of that too if needed.

It has now been over 72 hours. One of the brews, #1 with the Motts, seems to be going great! it's bubbling away happily. #2 with the WH Cider has still not bubbled at all. So what should be done?

gotcha, well that's good to hear. I just didn't know if I needed some more temp control, or yeast nutrient or something. With the beer kits I did before, they would be bubbling like crazy by now typically. I'll give it a couple days and see Thanks!

Hello all :mug: I'm new to cider brewing and yesterday did these two batches: 1: 5Gal Motts all natural AJ 4 pounds white sugar Lalvin EC1118 SG 1.079 2: 5Gal White House Natural Cider 4 pounds light brown sugar Notingham Ale Yeast SG 1.061 It's been about 12 hours since...

Hello Meaders, I've never brewed any mead and would like to attempt some today. I currently brew beer from kits (probably 10+ batches so far), and have all the equipment associated with that process... I almost never go into a secondary with the beer... so I typically will have 2-3 extra 7...

so if I don't think it's hoppy enough at this point ... Should I try dry hopping?

I had a floating glass thermometer in the tub surround the ferm bucket. I assumed the outside liquid and the inside liquid would be with 1-2 deg of eachother as they would seek equilibrium. it currently reads about 69deg F. It's probably about 73-76F ambient temp in the room now NOTE: don't...

I recently brewed my 3rd batch ever. I bought an Austin Homebrew extract kit for their 20th. It's the English Pale Ale. The brew went perfect as far as I could tell, trying to fully sanitize everything etc. The OG was what the instructions said it should be, 1.051 Since I live in FL, and...

If you make it over to the beach on he east coast... In Melbourne you have a World of Beer in Viera, Coasters in Indian Harbour Beach, and Charlie and Jake's Brewpub. Melbourne is also home to the Florida Brewery home of most of the Florida based brews they do tastings.

My experience is that they are extremely busy and will not return calls or emails. Best is to call till you talk to who you need to; maybe not every 30min but like every few hours to not be too much of a bother. They want to help, but are busy with the orders.

See, I'm a newer brewer and I'm not sure if/when I'll get into all grain. I don't really have the time or the space to do all grain from what I read about it. I don't have a garage or a dedicated brewspace so having a nice gravity fed stand design or something like that is attractive to me to...

I see a lot of brew stands on this for people doing full or partial mash brewing... Does anybody have diy or pics of brewstands for extract brewing? -cj

I got mine filled at an Ace Hardware; I don't know if they have them in TN. You could also try sporting stores like Sports Authority or Dicks; places that sell paint gun supplies will fill CO2.

Sorry to bump a 2 week old thread... but I'm interested in knowing the answer to this question.

Then maybe the "shaking the keg or turning the gas up high" shouldn't be called simply "force carbing". Maybe it needs a new or more descriptive term. Although I am just beginning, I of course knew there were 3 primary ways to carb in the keg: natural in ferm-like temps with sugar/etc, co2...

So it seems to have worked. Last night I disconnected the gas, rolled/shaked the keg for like 2-3min, attached gas at 30psi, waited till I didn't hear gas flowing and repeated. I only did it 2 times so as not to over do it then set the gas to about 10psi. Now this is the first real homebrew...

This. exactly. I think I'll go the quick route this time and by the time the beer is actually good in like 3 weeks my next batch will be ready to keg =) thanks all for the info. In the future I will definitely set and forget per everybody's advise.