Recent content by Clyon1

That starting gravity is high nor low until you decide the alcohol content you wish to achieve. Your hydrometer should allow you to infer a potential alcohol content per specific gravity. Some brew stores will give hand out for yeasts outlining the main uses for each, and their approximate...

Have you experimented with any other non-fermentables? I am about to back sweeten and bottle condition a woodchuck clone, and I've been reading up and It seems the reviews are mixed between the health nuts who think splenda is going to give them cancer, and brewers who feel it gives off a...

I tried this with a batch of mead that is just about ready to be bottled now. Took the regular old mead, racked it onto 12 lbs strawberries and made some Strawberry Melomel out of it. The addition of exotics in your secondary adds alot of sugar which does two things. 1) Allows your mead to...

Recently pressed 55 gallons of cider, mostly Cortland but also with a mixture. Planning on doing a bare bones ferment and simply letting the wild yeast take care of everything. Since the barrel was so heavy we left it in the garage, but I am wondering what is the low end temperature for wild...