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Mine over time became very over carbonated. Strawberry sugars kicked back in. I think I needed to add potassium metabisulfite because I did a force carbonation kegging and bottling. Had one bottle explode and many others over carbonate.

Is anyone putting in potassium metabisulfite to keep the berries from fermenting in the bottles? Should have added to mine. Was one of the best beers ever but became over carbonated after a month. I use it in my ciders and kicking myself for not adding in in this one.

Again it was a 10gal. batch not a 5gal. 8lb for 5X2=16 It's that new math :D

That's only 2 lbs more then the recipe. They come in 6lb bags. 5 weeks at 38 degrees. It would have been much less if it was 68-70 degrees. Can't wait to do this one again!!

OK we did out 1st batch a few months ago. It is amazing!! Took it to Beer Stock and it was one of the biggest hits out there. Many folks coming back 3 and 4 times It was hot as hell and was VERY REFRESHING!!. We took the leftover berries and made small strawberry short cakes with sponge cakes...

The Costco berries worked great. I used 18lb on a 10gal batch. The aroma , color and flavor is great on the berry side. Just re-racked them and pulled all the strawberries out. Will keg and bottle in 5 days. cold crashing right now. Something on the front end does taste a little off. It's only...

Thank you!! I'll try 1.010. I have done 1.000 but it didn't like it that much. I should have back sweeten that batch but I just gave it away with a warning :) I like your thoughts on the sediments. I have a kegerator to cold crash them one at a time then a filtering system so my ciders are...

OK I got around 13 1/2 to 14gal of juice from the 5 boxes of Honeycrisp on 4/19/15. pinched Safale s-04. OG 1.064. Today 5/6/15 it's at 1.018. Now what to do? When should I transfer them to the secondary for flavoring? I have some barrel cubes soaking in Wild Turkey for 1 batch, some fresh...

Fuji's are sweet and tart but your right a bunch of granny smiths might be needed. Thank you!

What fresh apples do you prefer or do you blend a few? I'm going to be picking up 5 boxes of Fuji and 5 boxes on what is called scratch and dent(mostly Honeycrisp) for $10 a box. I'm guessing I should do the two separately then maybe blend them. I'll post later what each box yielded in juice.

IS this correct? Sparge with 2.5 gal @170F for 10 min Sparge with 2.5 gal @170 for 10 min