Recent content by dyrne

I’m ordering a hydrometer but maybe it isn’t as screwed up as I thought. The bit I bottled actually has a good deal of carbonation now. I’m wondering about the “hot alcohol burn” that was mentioned. Is that normal or maybe because I didn’t siphon the original sample but poured it out from the...

No bubbling but it’s low 50s temperature right now. I did bottle some and there is a tiny bit of pressure built up after a week so the yeast is a little active. Ok well I guess I will need to invest in a hydrometer and start keeping some records because I’d swear this has almost no alcohol. So...

So this fall I setup a few 1 gal carboys in the garage that hovers around 55-65 degrees. 3 weeks in there was quite a bit of debris on the bottom and it smelled strongly of alcohol... I’d used champagne yeast and it was still a little sweet so I put the air lock back in and left it. Today it...

I’m sorry if this is discussed all over the place already but most of the suggestions and tutorials seem to stress clear commercial type cider... I’m in the states (Kentucky) and haven’t tasted a lot of hard ciders that I actually liked but I do have lots of pear and apple trees and I like the...

I appreciate all the responses it was very helpful... I think I will limit the number of pears I plant.

I've never had much in the way of pear cider... this may be kind of an off the wall question but I've been thinking of adding some pear trees at the family farm. Is the opinion that pear cider can be just as complex and interesting as apple cider? I don't have a ton of extra room in our...