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I am wondering if bitter gourd could also be used. Anyone have experience with this?

Great suggestion! Will give it a try.

Yes wormwood is super gross bitter stuff. Also good for all types of fungal infections btw. It's what I have it for -- not for making absinthe lol I promise.

Ohh thank you and thanks to everyone else!! :)

Oh my, I'm such a newb. What is a SG reading? LOL I'm sure I know this answer, but it's escaping me right now.

I have some rosemary growing outside and some wormwood in my cabinet :) I shall try both, in different batches. So do you think the sub for hops is 1:1 with these or should I try different amounts?

So it's bubbling happily in the fermenter. About how long does this normally take? I've heard many different things. Should I wait till it stops bubbling from the air lock and then transfer it to bottles or the carboy I have?

He can eat bread, Vital Wheat Gluten (we're vegetarian and that's a staple of ours) and have ciders of all sorts with yeast in it, so we can only think that it's the hops, because the process of elimination ... well eliminate the hops and there's no symptoms. Someone said that it's a...

OOh great suggestion, thank you!

Uh, projectile vomiting the next day. Along with headache and severe hangover symptoms. It's no good. And we ruled out many things including bad taps by switching to bottles, etc. It's the hops for sure. He can tolerate every other kind of alcohol, and I even gave him a few stout/darker brews...

Hello, We have found out recently that my husband is allergic to hops. I know there are some Old World techniques that do not use hops in the brew, and am wondering if anyone has tried to brew without hops and what the results of this "hopless" beer was? Thanks in advance.

Oh, party town is closest. Thank you!

I tasted a little of it and compared it to the raw stuff that I still have. It doesn't taste much different and there's not that cooked apple sauce flavor (if that's what you are talking about) Thanks for the suggestion on the tabs, is that something I can find on Amazon perhaps?

It's raw from a local farm so I was concerned about some nasty bugs in it spoiling the brew.

Hello, first time batch of cider here: When pasteurizing my cider today, I accidentally let it boil (like a simmer, not a hard boil) for a few minutes while I had a phone call. Will this affect the final product? Since it's my first time, I'd like to just go ahead with it and see how it goes...