Recent content by 2141zach

Yep its just starting to get cold dropped to 25 last night,Yakima is pretty nice, there are a lot of hops around here, and apples... How did your dads applejack turn out?

oh... well I should probably check doesn't seem like it should be illegal

If so what did you do? What processes do you go through? I am curious to start my own experiment and just want to know where to get started.

best thing to do to carbonate while sweetening is add the correct amount of real sugar for carbonation ( your priming sugar) and add your non fermentable sugar then bottle and carb. Now you have a carbonated sweet cider I think you should have these supplies am i wrong?

I have fermented cider in the bottle it comes in before to and left the lid on loose and it worked fine probably better to make a makeshift airlock though out of tubing that runs from the lid into a glass of water. Anyways to answer your question there are two ways that i know of to get it...

Hi, I am new to this and was wondering if I could collect yeast from a bottle of wine that i bought from a grocery store. I added some of the wine into a glass with some sugar and oats for nutrients. Will this work? I know some wineries pasteurizer there pasteurized and kill the yeast but it...

I can now see some small bubbles so I think it was just a slow start

So I started some wine about 2 days ago and added the yeast. I waited and I cant see any bubbles but there is a thin layer of foam at the top. I am using frozen juice from concentrate I checked the ingredients and didn't see any preservatives. Why is this happening is the yeast dead and should I...