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I know you did not ask for design suggestions but - One suggestion to help with shipping and foot print size would be to make either all three or just the top two shelves adjustable. If you welded each shelf to a collar, a slightly larger pipe than the main upright, and put 2 "tighteners," T...

CvilleKevin - For your cider and cyser do you only use only juice + sweetener or do you use any specialty grains. If you use a special recipe, is it posted here somewhere. Also, I called Harry's Whole Foods in Roswell, GA today and they said that they would juice any apples that I want. So you...

I want to make a honey pale ale. I want the SG to be around 1.050. Should I use honey or honey malt to get the honey taste? Do I go malty, or will I still get honey flavor do a more attuationied mash? spell that right?

Go ahead and taste in. It will be a little "green". If it has any funky flavors, let it sit a little longer.

I do a gallon jar to rinse in. I rack the yeast into beer bottles. You should have some bottle and sanitizer laying around.

Not suger free. use the regular kool aid and don't add the sugar. The raspberry beer takes at least 6 weeks for the flavors to meld.

I would give it at least 3 weeks. 1.066 is a lot of work for one packet of US 05.