Recent content by Chachane186

Hi All, I have a taprite double output regulator: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0060NOX40/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 It's been working for some time now perfectly but today when I tried to turn the big red knob on the left clockwise to open the gas flow nothing happened. instead the knob...

Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks so much for the replies guys, I really do appreciate it! I decided that risking oxidizing the cider was just too great a risk of off flavours and making people sick so I did some research and I think I can buy some 12g CO2 bulbs here, they aren't food...

Dear More knowledgable person than I, I currently have a approx 5 gal of sweet carbonated apple cider in a 5gal corny keg. I am trying to figure out how to make this cider portable and I've researched a number of things. 1. I could bring my co2 tank with me wherever I go but this a hassle as...

Yesterday I checked my latest cider and it was around 1.009 FG and had the perfect sweetness and dryness to it so I decided that I was going to immediately keg and cold crash the cider. I also wanted to test out something new so I added 2 tsp of Young's Potassium Sorbate to the cider to the 4gal...

Sorry for the attempted hijacking here... Hi there, I know it's a bit late to be posting this but I just transferred my cider from into the keg and added 2 tsp of Young's Potassium Sorbate into it w/o any K-Meta. I read somewhere that this can cause the sulphuric smells and flavours and I am a...

Hi JR, Thanks so much for the advice, I'm going to def. give this a shot as a work around. It seems too good to be true but the final taste test will reveal all I guess. I'm heading to the UK in a month so I'm planning on buying and bringing back some proper equipment while I'm there...

Thank you for the help, We don't have sealable food grade buckets (that I know of) here in Bangalore so I'm going to have to import a proper fermenting vessel for this process. It's going to cost me far too much to import a glass carboy so I think using a plastic fermenter is the way to go...

Hi All, I live in India and I've been brewing cider for a few months now because the ingredients are fairly easy to come by. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to beer though as I've never brewed beer before. I recently bought a Woodfordes Wherry Beer Kit (the 2 can kit) along with a packet...

Thanks so much for the advice, I don't know if I have the Potassium Meta bisulfide tablets, those aren't the same as Camden tablets are they? Could I pasteurize the cider to kill the remaining yeast before back sweetening? would that work? I've read I can do this by waiting until all the sugar...

I'm still just starting out so I don't think I need to be buying anything at the moment until I figure out exactly what I'm doing, but it's nice to know that there are others in the same boat as me!

Hello, I'm relatively new to brewing cider (and brewing in general for that matter) and completely new to cold crashing so please forgive me if I seem a little ignorant here. I'm currently brewing a hard apple cider with the following ingredients: 4 gal apple juice 3.3 lbs light...

Hi There, I'm a relatively new and inexperienced brewer who lives in Bangalore, India. Home brewing is a relatively unknown thing here in India so I have (gladly) resorted to brewing cider as apples and sugar are readily available here. Unfortunately my equipment is a bit thrown...