Recent content by Dereq

The idea of a slice of bread in a sealed container of brown sugar is to lend the bread's moisture to the sugar to keep it from drying out and keeping its shelf life. It's a prett common practice. I'm sure this sugar wasn't intended for cider in the first place, but a new bag would be a good idea...

Being new to brewing myself, one of the things I learned quickly was to relax and not fret too much about little things that go wrong during the process that are no longer really in your control. For example, I had a terrible brewing day a few weeks back where everything seemingly went wrong...

yep! the more i think about it, the more i think it's an "add to taste" per serving kind of thing. but my over-indulgent self is also thinking of dumping a bottle in there. :mug:

I have a 5-gallon batch in the fermentor for about a week now. A friend of mine at work said he and his wife like to add a shot of Fireball when they drink Angry Orchard for that cinnamon-spice note and extra kick. This got me thinking. Has anyone ever added Fireball to the whole finished batch...

New homebrewer here with one 5-gallon Maestro IPA and one NB 1-gal Black IPA under my belt successfully brewed, bottled, and enjoyed in the last month. To get an idea of how bad the bug bit me, I brewed another 1-gal NB Honey Country Pilsner two days ago with a brew day planned for next weekend...