Recent content by Faralon

I'm in! *crosses mash paddles*

Carbonated and ready to go. Been drinking since the 23'rd, and it won't last past xMas for sure. Good sign!!! Cold and Carbonated its GREAT!!

JTK, my wife said the same thing, sounds like our brew's are pretty close as far as initial assumptions. Best thing you could do when trying to figure out the additional fermentables, minus the apples would be to: 1. Take a gravity reading before adding the honey/ginger 2. Rack the beer onto...

Agreed on the ginger, next time I would do LESS ginger. I used .8oz of powdered ginger for 5.5gal batch. The ginger HAS mellow'd alot from my initial sampling during fermentation. OG: 1.083 FG: 1.016 ABV: 8.9% Color: Totally looks like apple cider, but clearer. Nose: Ginger and Apple...

Nice, if you're down at 1.008 I'll have to give mine a look tonight! Might be time to keg and age!

Fermenting off the honey/cider shouldn't take 4 weeks at temps between 60-65'f (room temps). I was at 1.040 when I racked the beer into 2ndary onto the cider. Just checked it this am, 4 days later, I'm at 1.048. Cider added some sugars for sure, and with it, ABV! Tasted the sample I used for...

Looking good JTK. I racked to 2ndary fermenter at 6 days. (it just worked out that way due to my schedule). I left out the apples in the 2ndary, and racked the beer onto the 1/2 gallon of cider. Taste was really still too sweet and gingery for me. I'm sure time will fix this as...

Took a grav reading today. Brew'd on the 18th, OG: 1.083, and am at 1.040 five days later. WL001 fermenting at an average of 65'f. If you've been brewing since the 14th, you might be ready for a 2ndary racking, but its not a do or die. Some people don't even use a 2ndary.

Looks to me like the apples just have some yeast/krausen mud on em, should be fine. 7 days seems to be a good average point to where the CO2 out of the air lock calms down. I always wait for the main off-gassing of CO2 to stop before racking into secondary. Shouldn't get much krausening in the...

Here is what I ended up doing with my AG brew day. Batch: 5gal Grain: 10lbs 2-Row Pale 1lb Amber 1lb Crystal 40 1lb Oats 60min mash @ 152'f 60min boil Added 3/4oz. of a mix of Cascade, Willamette, Perle whole leaf homegrown hops at 60min. Added 1/2oz. of the same mix at 30min. (some of my...

Thanks, I forgot about the cider additions. I'll do that too. With the spices, I'll add them at flameout then, sound good? Grain bill look ok?

How's this sound for AG Batch: 5gal 10lb 2 Row Pale 1lb Amber 1lb Crystal 30L 1lb Oats Additions: Homegrown Cascade @ 60min Homegrown Willamete @ 30min Homegrown Cascade @ 5min (hop additions yet to be determined) 2lb Honey @ 5min 4 Cinnamon sticks @ 5min 1.5oz ginger @ 5min Puts me roughly...