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Now that I have your attention... :) I have made 4-5 batches of cider following CvilleKevin's basic process; Buy the best juice you can get (lucky enough to have several local cider mills), add sugar to reach your desired OG, ferment with SafeAle-04, crash, keg, carb, drink. Flavor is...

This is a re-post of a question I asked in the Brew Science forum before I realized that it was a sub-forum of "Beer". Hopefully posting here will get some more wine\cider related feedback as that is what I am making! :) I have long wished (as have many others I am sure) that there were an...

I have long wished (as have many others I am sure) that there were an easy way to calculate actual ABV of a finished product but always believed it required more complex lab equipment than I am willing to get involved in. Recently a friend came across a couple of different sites offering a...

Does anybody here have any experience making sweet/semi-sweet cider from this area? Any recommendations of where to source good juice (both taste and price)? Any recipes or methods to share? I just made my first batch from fresh juice sourced from Boa Vista, it was more expensive than I...

I seem to be getting conflicting information about how much k-meta to use to sanitize a must and was hoping somebody with a little more experience could straighten it out for me :) Pretty much every recipe I have come across suggests 1/4 teaspoon for 5-6 gallons. The instructions on my...

In short, I got my wires crossed and mixed up my Pot. Meta. with my Pot. Sorb. and ended up adding 2 1/2 tsp of Pot. Meta. into 5g of Skeeter Pee...by my rough calcs I probably have 750ppm sulfites at this point :( Feeling pretty dumb about it...is this batch salvageable without turning it...

I have read a few discussion about the merits of ageing in glass versus PET, but I am wondering if there is a reason more people don't age in stainless soda kegs? It seems like they are lighter, have handles/easier to move/store, sealed, don't let light in, don't leech, and finally, similarly...

Does anybody have any experience with making cider from varietals as they become available and then blending to make a final product? Cheers HW

Although I missed the apple season last year, I would like to do everything I can to be prepared for this one :) I am lucky enough to live within 30 minutes of a small apple growing region called "Apple Hill" (imaginative I know :)) that grows a wide range of different apples. I am going to...

In preparing for my next brew I have being doing diligent research...in no small part by tasting several commercial ciders :) Two in particular stand out for me, for completely opposite reasons. Samuel Smith Organic Cider stands out because it tasted so artificial to me. I checked the...

Not sure I could have a more basic beginner question but here goes :) Haven't made anything in probably 15 years, and when I last did it was in a different country, with different sanitizer, different equipment and so on. I just started a batch of Apfelwein in a 6.5g carboy and used Star...