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Sorry for not updating in a long time. We bottled this earlier today and I will give my impressions on it so far. It has been in secondary for ~6 months (rough estimate), with 3-4 cinnamon sticks, and ~1/2 a bag of medium toasted american oak chips. They were left in the whole time in...

Will do. Maybe I will take out a sample of it when I move it to secondary, and some after the flavoring in secondary. :mug:

+15 Total: 27272, palindrome :)

Cool, thanks for the input. I think I will just float the oak and cinnamon sticks in a bag in secondary and pull them out when I like the taste. Maybe soak them all in rum or brandy? A lot of things I could potentially do lol.

Hi guys, I just put a cider in primary a little over a week ago. It was: 5 gallons apple juice 2 lbs dark brown sugar Nottingham Yeast I was thinking of having it in primary for 2 months before moving it to secondary for ~10 months. In secondary I was thinking of adding oak chips...

You guys would probably know better than me :p. None of lhbs that I have been to had any cheap carboys. Breaking glass sucks though, I broke a $130 flask in lab... needless to say my professor was not pleased lol.

Hey guys, Thought some people might be interested in this. I bought one awhile ago to try Edworts Apfelwein. It is solidly built and cheap. Went to buy another one but the were OOS, camelcamelcamel just let me know they were back in stock so I thought I would share. Link Cheers :tank...

:ban: Been thinking about doing this too if my turns out well :mug:

Did it today, hope it turns out well for Christmas :)

Here is hoping

Wow, thank you all for your speedy responses! Now that I know just how important temps are to the whole process is, I think I will try using the swamp cooler method, and adding the frozen water bottles to it. I am planning to store it in a closet to help keep the temps regulated even more. I...

Hi guys, I am new to home brewing, and just recently got a starter kit. The recommended brewing temperatures are 60-70 for the recipe I got, but my house will probably be more like 80. Do you think this will be a huge issue for this recipe and future brews, and if so, do you have any...