Recent content by jdcollette

I'm a sorta newbie (been brewing for about a year) and have had a good amount of success with regular off the shelf store bought apple juice. Only one batch went bad and most have turned out very well. In October, I started a 4 gallon batch with some organic, unfiltered, fresh cider from a...

I've been brewing cider for about a year and have been quite successful thanks to this forum. My first batch turned out a bit like moonshine, but that was due to excess sugar and an zealous strain of yeast...but since then, I've been able to turn our a pretty consistently good dry, carbed cider...

I tried this recipe, but used champagne yeast since that what's the local brew shop had. So far, it turned out quite well. I had done a grocery store only cider as my first experiment (everything from the store: bread yeast, table sugar and Motts.) That turned out drinkable, but with a quite...