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I had a question to piggy-back on this thread. I brewed my first batch of cider on Saturday (3 days ago) and it was recommended by my LHBS that I go for the "option 1" as listed in the original post. I had an OG of 1.065 from juice and added sugar and was planning to stop fermentation with...

Thank you all for the advice. I had hoped to use a non concentrate cider, but couldn't find one without preservatives. I guess I will have to try it again with the fresh stuff! I measured the juice by itself, which had SG of 1.050, and added 3 cups of table sugar, bringing the OG to 1.065 for 5...

Hi! I am about to start up my first batch of cider (have made 3 batches of beer previously). I am going to make a 5 gallon batch using Mott's apple juice and champagne yeast. I want to use sugar to increase the OG so that I can get around a 6-7% ABV final product, but am not sure how much to...

I am planning to bottle my 3rd batch wheat beer tonight and have a priming question... On my last 2 batches I feel like the carbonation could have been higher, and for a wheat beer I definitely don't want it to be at all flat. My LHBS suggested 5oz, I think, but the cornsugar bag they gave...

Hi all, I'm the OP for this thread and finally got around to playing around with beer calculus on all of my other recipes. For the recipe in the first post, I calculated an OG of 1.047 using beer calculus, where others in this thread had calculated ~1.030 using beer smith. Am I doing something...

Yes, I just saw that in another thread about a low OG issue, and the correlation was stated for a 5 gallon batch. I appreciate all of the help you two! signing off...

okay, that makes sense, thanks! So by the 1lb DME = ~1% ABV "rule", I should have expected that this recipe would produce about a 3.3% beer?

Yes, sorry, I meant specialty grains, long day... I still may be confused though. If I were to mash the same specialty grains with a base malt (rather than specialty grains "mashed" alone and then adding DME for the boil), would I have achieved a higher OG? I suspect not because, as you...

Ah, that was what I was worried about because now I'm going to really have to be on my game before I head into that store! I do not have the original amount of base malt, but I think he did a conversion of something like 65% of the base malt by weight...so maybe about 5lbs? Is there a good way...

I like that idea too, JoshuaWhite. To follow up, does extract (DME or LME) have enzymes? Should I have had the DME in the kettle when I carefully kept it at 152F for 45 minutes expecting to extract some sugars??? Are there options for extracting sugars from extract grains without mashing a...

Thanks for the replies! It was for a 5 gallon batch, so w/ calcs reporting 1.029 or 1.032, I feel like I'm close to on track (I am not sure where the 5 gallon line is on the carboy, but I could probably top it off with another 2-3 cups of liquid). I did not know that the specialty grains did...

After a successful 1st batch (Scottish Ale, extract w/ 1.25lbs specialty grains), I finally got around to brewing my second batch this evening: Coffee Stout 3.3 lbs DME 1 lb Coffee malt 2 lbs flaked barley 1 lb black barley 2 oz. Fuggle Pellets (4.5% Alpha Acids) WL Irish Ale yeast...

Thanks for the reply! I don't remember the yeast off the top of o my head, but it is not a wheat beer. I checked it out when I got it and the recommended temp is 65-70F, and also said it does not perform well below 62F, which I have been nearly the entire time, but it seems to be fermenting...

Just to add in my own question... from other answers it sounds like my first batch will be fine fermenting at 59-61F (Read from the fermometer strip attached to the side of the glass carboy). My question is, will this slow down the fermentation, or produce different flavors(as I understand is...

Thank you! I will get on it

Just to clarify... turkey fryer pots are aluminum? is that okay for doing everything (AG, BIAB, Extract) in? Very new here and looking to get some more equipment, not sure if I need to spring for SS kettle that will be twice the cost of the turkey-fryer setup w/o even having the burner!

my girlfriend offered to buy me some homebrew equipment for a gift and I have been spending a bit of time on here and in bookstores looking for what I need. Temp control was one of my biggest initial cost concerns (want to get started w/ as little cost as possible to see if it's really...