Snuffalupagus
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It has begun.
I arrived home from work today and found a package from internet homebrew shop -therein were the basics I needed to get started. all except a 5 gallon water jug - which i had fortunately stolen er... I mean, borrowed from work today.
I went out and discovered that the local hippie supply store had gotten a new shipment of organic apple juice so i bought four more gallons to join the one i bought a few days ago ( it was the last one at the hippie supply store at the time) while i was there I bought some localy milled turbinato sugar (maui grown! baby)
I cleaned the jug with a water and bleach solution and rinsed it no less than 6 times with warm water. I alowed it to dry.
while that was going on I heated up a pot of water and disolved (mostly anyway) 2 pounds of sugar I alowed this to cool a bit and started pouring the apple juice into my 5 gallon jug, I then added the sugar solution, capped the bottle and shook the hell out of it. went upstatirs and warmed 2 ounces of water and a teaspoon of the suar solution to 105 degrees and re hydrated the EC-1118 yeast. per the package instructions I let it stand for 15 minutes then gave it a stir. it looked (a little?) bubbly and had a sweet yeast scent to it. I pitched this into my jug along with 3 teaspoons of yeast nutrient and added my airlock. Three hours later there is still no obvious bubbling at the airlock.... maybe my yeasty beasties are tired from thier long flight? do yeast get jetlagged? maybe they like to run on "island time"
anyway I'm going by the seat of my pants style so I haven't bought a Hydrometer so I don't know the gravity of my project, but I figgure 4-5 weeks primary then straight to bottling with a primer for 3/4 of the brew, the rest will be bottled still.
recipe is as follows:
3.5 gallons Solana Gold unfiltered organic Apple juice ( I drank a half gallon of this after work today - brewing is thirsty work )
1 gallon Santa Cruz unfiltered organic apple juice
2 pounds "Sugar in the Raw" maui grown Turbinado cane sugar
1 packet Lavlin EC-118
3 teaspoons yeast nutrient.
will keep you posted on progress and ask questions if things don't seem right.
wish me luck
I arrived home from work today and found a package from internet homebrew shop -therein were the basics I needed to get started. all except a 5 gallon water jug - which i had fortunately stolen er... I mean, borrowed from work today.
I went out and discovered that the local hippie supply store had gotten a new shipment of organic apple juice so i bought four more gallons to join the one i bought a few days ago ( it was the last one at the hippie supply store at the time) while i was there I bought some localy milled turbinato sugar (maui grown! baby)
I cleaned the jug with a water and bleach solution and rinsed it no less than 6 times with warm water. I alowed it to dry.
while that was going on I heated up a pot of water and disolved (mostly anyway) 2 pounds of sugar I alowed this to cool a bit and started pouring the apple juice into my 5 gallon jug, I then added the sugar solution, capped the bottle and shook the hell out of it. went upstatirs and warmed 2 ounces of water and a teaspoon of the suar solution to 105 degrees and re hydrated the EC-1118 yeast. per the package instructions I let it stand for 15 minutes then gave it a stir. it looked (a little?) bubbly and had a sweet yeast scent to it. I pitched this into my jug along with 3 teaspoons of yeast nutrient and added my airlock. Three hours later there is still no obvious bubbling at the airlock.... maybe my yeasty beasties are tired from thier long flight? do yeast get jetlagged? maybe they like to run on "island time"
anyway I'm going by the seat of my pants style so I haven't bought a Hydrometer so I don't know the gravity of my project, but I figgure 4-5 weeks primary then straight to bottling with a primer for 3/4 of the brew, the rest will be bottled still.
recipe is as follows:
3.5 gallons Solana Gold unfiltered organic Apple juice ( I drank a half gallon of this after work today - brewing is thirsty work )
1 gallon Santa Cruz unfiltered organic apple juice
2 pounds "Sugar in the Raw" maui grown Turbinado cane sugar
1 packet Lavlin EC-118
3 teaspoons yeast nutrient.
will keep you posted on progress and ask questions if things don't seem right.
wish me luck