Recent content by aobolenskiy

oops! sorry about the ommision of the cranberry/rasberry juice. after adding the other ingredients what is left over in the carboy I added the rasberry/cranberry juice. (drained 1/3 of gallon applce cider, and added sugar, tea, lemon and cranberry/rasberry juice) ***UPDATE*** I tasted...

Hey Guys, Sometimes a noob can come up with some ideas, and I had the ah ha last week. This is a total experiement but I wanted to share my fun, and keep a status report on the product. Ingredients: *1 gallon Whole foods pressed pasturized juice (doubles as a 1 gal carboy) better bang...

I just crashed mine too, and it was kind of dry (I think the sugar helped) and had a bite to it. I filled it last night leaving the small part to the top of the bottle, and then let them sit out from 8:00 pm to 10: am this am. They were hard, and I think carbonated enough so I stuck em in the...

Thanks for the input. I have been cleaning them as I go, and letting them sit with a bleach/water in them for 1 day before drying them out. I don't have any smell from them, and I think cleaning them out right away with the bleach helps. Onto my cider. The first batch is bubbling every 15-16...

I guess i should have used the common sense with that one! Dishwasher no-sanitizer yes! So I have the second bottle going since yesterday. I took out 1/3 gallon from the cider bottle, and added cranberry/rasberry juice from Costco (kirkland brand). I also added one cup of fresh brewed lipton...

[/SIZE] Yea, you are probably right. I will stop by and pick up one more air lock today. I got some root beer 1 liter bottles at the dollar store to bottle the stuff. They are brown plastic, and I think they should work well. I was going to wash them in the dishwasher and bottle right...

I am doing about the same thing but on the cheap. I bought a glass on gallon jar of pasturized unfiltered organic apple juice from whole foods. I went down to the local brew store and spent 5 bucks on 3 packets of champagne yeast, an air lock, and stopper. I pulled out one cup of juice, and...