Recent content by Csspecs

Any chance you have a bad PH reading and your adding too much acid? Also using pennies for copper analogs, be sure to use ones from before 1981, pennies made from 1982 on are mostly zinc and will react differently.

That was me not the OP. Yeah I'll probably drop that in the future. Before I found this forum I was getting information off a youtube. The information was not totally wrong but not perfectly clear as to the why and how.. Clear juices have already processed so there is no need for the enzyme. We...

Looks like I forgot a few things I have. Have a large stainless steel mash paddle, figured it would not mold like wood has a tendency to do in Florida. The RO water is something I'll probably do, I think my filter is able to make 50+ gallons a day so that would be easier than hauling jugs to the...

Ok I'm a total noob, but I'm currently typing this a little buzzed on some really nice cider that is like 16 days old. My recipe is: 5 gallons cheap sams club apple juice with just vitamin C. Yeast EC-1118 5 TSP Yeast nutrient 3 TSP Pectic enzyme OG=1050 FG=1000 which was bone dry, like...

My family has been getting beer kegs since 2004, beer keeps going up a little at a time.. Like in 2010 yingling was around $55 a keg, and it has been inching up for years, this year it went from $69 at the start of the year to $90 per keg as of November with word being it is going to $100 in...