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I'm not far from Lexington. About 35 miles to the east.

Yes the one on the right is plain. Very happy with how clear it is

I am fixing to bottle my first batch of cider ever. One has peaches that was added to the secondary and the other is just apple juice. For botteling and sweeting do I just add my frozen juice concentrate and bottle or do I need to add priming sugar as well?

Here is a picture of the peaches added and three weeks in

3 weeks in. 2 weeks in primary and 1 week in secondary. Secondary was spilt into 2 one gallon glass jugs. Today my wife added peaches to one of the glass jugs. Hoping it turns out. Other is very clear and ready to backsweeten and bottle.

I'm a new home brewer from ky. Been on the forums for a bit and just getting to this. I have brewed one Mr. Beer kit and have 2 gallons of cider going now. Happy brewing and look forward to connecting with other brewers from ky.

Definitely looking forward to finding 4 gallon recipes and developing my own.

I'm just getting started and thought the exact same thing. Cheap and cost effective. Allows me to learn and keep batches going. With all the equipment I've got I have less than 50 dollars invested and haven't had a bad batch yet. I still have a few things to invest in like a hydrometer and stuff...

For me it was a cheap way to get buckets as the bakery I get them from has 1 gallon all the way up to 5 gallons and for a dollar each. I can have 4 or 5 batches going that way. Less money on fermentors means more money on beer and cider.

I plan on using them for batches of cider and maybe small batches of beer. I have two lbk's also. So it gives me 7 potential fermentors

I was thinking I could do 4 gallons in them

My wife just picked up 5 five gallon food grade buckets from a baker to use as fermentors. Does anyone else use these? The lid I bought from my lhbs doesn't fit. How did you fix your lids for an air lock?

Going to wait another two weeks and put another bottle in the fridge and try it again.

I opened my first bottle of my classic American light, first brew ever. Spent two weeks in fermentor and two weeks bottle conditioning. With all the problems I had with my lbk leaking, my beer turned out tasting like a draft domestic in comparison. I used two carb drops per instructions for the...

Cracked open the first bottle tonight. Used two carb drops per instructions and it's a little over carbonated. Beer is clear and see through. Taste like a domestic. Goes down smooth.