Chalkyt

Welcome to the fun. Everyone will have their favorite yeast. The list that you have should all be quite good. However, to answer your...

To answer your questions, If you think through the cider fermentation process it is fairly straightforward... get some juice which...

Thanks for the replies... It just seems to be a matter of interpretation and understanding what is being calculated. The various...

Hello Beer People… I am from over the fence in the HBT Cider Forum where there has been a bit of discussion on bottle priming for...

Check the SG of your apple juice and your pear juice, then make up a sample of both in the proportions you are planning to use and check...

Yep, all of the above. IME, the yeast EC1118 is a robust fermenter that finishes neutral and very dry and can tend to strip flavour. My...

Hops are fairly lightweight and I guess lavender flowers are somewhat similar but of course we don't know what intensity of flavour they...

My suggestion would be to adopt the approach I use with hopped cider... Wait until you have racked to secondary, or if you don't do...

Yes, you might be right. I notice that in the Pressure Calculation part of CJ's book he refers to 0.5 atm of air in a bottle dissolving...

Good advice, with regards to measuring the specific apples you're using yourself, as levels of sugars, TA, tannins, pH, etc. will vary...

Here is a bit of light bedtime reading for you… Just for a bit of entertainment (mine and yours) on a cold and wintery day and...

Apple data is hard to find, particularly tannin. There are dribs and drabs scattered through google searches. The most useful sources I...

Sorry, I wrote the following bit (in italics) yesterday in response your 5.41 post. I wandered off to do something and obviously didn't...

Re your question from last Saturday. Hmm... teaspoons or tablespoons? I generally work on two gravity points of fermentation resulting...

330ml (12 oz) crown cap (not twist tops) beer bottles. Mostly recycled, so easy to find. I get mine from a sporting group that likes to...