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I know its been a whilemsomce you posted this but I may be purchasng one of these freezers and was planning on using top mount taps without a collar. Do you think there would be room for the kegs in there without the collar? My concern is that there may not be enough height. Than,s

Hello, this recipe looks great, thanks! I was wondering when the honey is added and if the watermelon juice is added at the beginning of the full two weeks in the secondary? Thanks

Hello, i am getting readybto bottle this tonite. It is going to be my first cider and I was wondering if aftert bottling should i put the bottles in the fridge to carbonate or just at room temp and then pasturize after i get the right carbonation level. Thanks!

Hey vox thanks for the posts. Did you end up oven pasteurize and if is how did it go?

I hope this hasn't been asked or doesn't seem likea dumb question but of you want to carb you use priming sugar as useual right? I don't wanna add more sugar than necessary and make bottle bombs. Thanks!

Hi there, i started fermenting this on 10/6 and the airlock still showing active fermentation. I was thinking about taking a gravity reading to see how close i am to the target gravity but something felt weird about opening my carboy while fermentation is still going on. Sould i wait until there...

I am getting ready to try this. Thanks for the recipe. I noticed that it is recommended that you test carbonation with a plastic bottle to help prevent glass bottle bombs. I was wwondering what you do with the remaining primed cider while testing with the plastic bottles. Thanks.

Hello, I just added Gelatin to my pumpkin beer last night and due to time constraints I will have to bottle this evening. Do you think bottling this soon after adding the gelatin will make adding the gelatin for clarifying puposes pointless? Thanks

Would this.still need to ferment.28.days.if.bottleing.since.the.beer.would need to be in.tue.bottles for two weeks to carb? Thanks for.the.recipe!

Thanks for the reponse! The progam had a default 1.25qt/lb for the initial stirke and mash if I use 3.55gal that would be more than the 1.25/qt do you think that would have an affect on it?

Thanks for the info, Im sorry I stopped on page 19 in the thread I will need to finish reading it, just wanted to clear that up I appreciate it!

Hi everyone I'm getting ready to give this method a try and just had a quick question in regards to water ratios. I plugged Ed worts ale into beersmith because I only have a 6 gallon pot and the recipe is based on boiling 6.5 down to 5.5. Anyway I scaled it down in beersmith to fit my...

Hi there I am about to try my first ag brew and am planning on using my 6 gallon pot on my stove. I plugged the recipe I wanted to use into beersmith to make it smaller due to my pot size and it said to sparge in 4.5 gallons of water. So what i was going to do was mash in my 3 gallon pot and...

I also brought the water level down in the pale thats got the tube end in it now it bubbling like a fine tuned machine. Thanks again for your replies I really appreciate the help

good question was considering doing the same thing split 50/50