Recent content by candlejack

Question for you all. I read the first 10-20 pages of this post and am very intrigued by this recipe. Since yeast balls are hard to come by, if i find some and make this recipe....can i take leftover rice mush at the end of a batch when bottling and use that to start a new batch? Thank you...

ok, I'm going to throw it away. thank you.

Ok, so I'm making a cyser, but that isn't the focus of this post. I had about half a gallon left of my apple juice, and due to my fridge being broken (damn this apartment complex!) I immediately closed the apple juice bottle and placed it on my counter. 3 days later the apple juice...

BTW I also used Yeast nutrient and camden etc. Also, when transferring throw the leftover fruit and stuff down the garbage disposal, smells pretty nice :P

First off, I came up with this recipe, and I apologize if its the same as any other recipe. Ingredients: 1 fuji apple diced 1 lemon diced store brand apple juice sprig of rosemary 1 can apple juice concentrate (I bought the cheapest frozen one I think it was the saratoga one?) 1.5...

I was just curious if anyone has tried adding fruits such as strawberries, cherries, blueberries etc to edwort's apfelwein recipe? If I was to try it, do you think I should add fruit to the primary or secondary? or both?

Anyone have any ideas on this?

Hello, quick question, so I enjoy brewing meads and wines mainly, and i recently bought a food safe bucket from lowes. However, they did not have a food safe lid to go along with it. Is it ok to use a non food safe bucket since the must/wort/whatever would not come into physical contact with...

Revvy thank you so much! I appreciate your response. Everyone else thank you, I appreciate your responses as well I stayed away from bleach because when I lived with my parents (just moved out recently) my dad would go on weird cleaning sprees and use all the bleach. It would actually wind...

Hello, quick question about what sanitizer i should buy. At a local tractor supply store, they have two different sanitizers one label reads: Ingredients: 7% active ingredients provided by iodine, potassium iodide and providone iodine. Provides 2.4% titratable iodine. The second...

Hey, i used so much honey because i was trying to make a braggot as opposed to a honey beer i guess. also, i think honey is 86% fermentable I really like the satellite fermentation idea. I'm going to give that a try next time. I may do the plastic bottle this time around. I wonder if the...

Well I dont know how much more the yeast can handle to be honest. I used a pound and a half of honey and about a pound of liquid malt extract....and a can of fruit in light syrup (all that for a 1 gallon batch). I don't have an og reading for it, but it must have been way high.

I think i did some calculations....I'm thinking it would have to be at 1.012 or less.

Hey, a few weeks ago I posted how I was antsy to bottle some fruity honey beers. I still have some slight fermentation going and I havent taken any readings, (though I will tomorrow) My question for you guys is, what final gravity is it safe to bottle at without priming and allow it to...

nice, im gonna do the can method as well tonight.