Recent content by Canajun

Oh, yeah, and you really won't "see" what you are used to with beer, he's right. All that nasty frothy stuff from the hops won't happen with the cider. You may get a light ring around your carboy from dormant yeast that just has decided to stick there from surface tension, but you don't get...

I never used to make a starter. Now I do it about 12 hours before. It makes about a day's difference in the fermenting time. I start about 1/3 to 1/2 gallon in a growler. I'm thinking 24 hrs might be a bit too long anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. Once the yeast gets active, it...

That's kind of what I was thinking. They hydro should not be lying. Sugar is sugar, and it should ferment out to the same strenghth. There must be something else in the cider that makes it seem like a stronger buzz. Everyone who partook in the debauchery over the weekend has commented on how...

Yeah, everyone says that it takes a month for their cider to finish fermenting. I'm guessing that the temperature is the difference. My friend, who owns the local home brew store said that hers was still fermenting on Saturday, and we started within a day or two. But hers is in her basement...

Hey all! I've become pretty adept at brewing a really simple, quick and everyone agrees, tasty cider. The problem is that everyone, including me, at least according to my girlfriend, gets waaay too drunk off it. All I'm doing is putting in 5 gals + a bit of cider, adding pectin...