Recent content by Johan

I'm going to try my hand at a Brut IPA. Never done one before but it looks interesting . Only late additions of hops and a special enzyme added when pitching the yeast.

Our friendly neighborhood HBS is now carrying Carolina Malt House Malts, so I picked up some Carolina Gold 2-row and some Crystal 10L for Gold Pale Ale. Hops will be EKG & Fuggles.

Sunday I'll be brewing up a batch of Belgian Saison. Next weekend I'll have a go at a Heady Topper NEIPA clone.

I brewed up a batch of Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA Clone. Turned out nice!

I just finished a one-gallon batch of sparkling apple cider dry hopped with Brewer's Gold nuggets. Kept it in 2ndary about a week. It turned out nice. I'd do it again.

Thinking about making some Graf (Beer/Cider Hybrid) and Braggot Beer/Mead Hybrid).

10 gallons of apple cider, 2 gallons of cherry -apple, 2 gallons of pomegranate-plum-apple, 1 gallon dry-hopped apple, all spakling in bottles or already enjoyed. In primary: 2 gallons apple, 1 gallon grape-apple, 1 gallon cherry-apple, 1 gallon pomegranate-plum-apple, 1 gallon orange-spice...

Don't tell anyone, but I like those bottles better than the ones I bought at my friendly neighborhood HBS . Yesah the lemonade is good but some of the other flavors, pumpkin spice comes to mind, is better dumping down the drain and keeping the bottle.

I can't say I've never had a bottle bomb while making sparkling cider, but I've accumulated about 3 cases of the bottles of carbonated French lemonade sold at Aldi. I've never burst one of them even with rather heavy back sweetening. They are rather stout. I usually bottle cider at 1.020 SG and...

Roger that on the lemonade, got a 1 gallon batch of Skeeter Pee going, myself.

I'm new to mead but have been making sparkling hard cider for some time now. I bottle condition my cider to get a nice champagne-like carbonation. Can I use the same method for mead?

Just "Brewed up" 2 one-gallon batches of mead/melomel. First one has dried orange peel and orange blossom honey. The other has dried elderberries and clover honey. This is my 1st attempt at mead, but I've been making sparkling cider for some time. My friendly neighborhood HBS has a Mead Day in...

Dadof5, I don't see why the yeast cake from your cider wouldn't work, provided it's still viable. I think I'd mix it with a little water and nutrient to see if it activates before I tried it in my mix.

I started a 1 gallon batch about a week ago only I used the frozen lemonade concentrate and a cup of sugar. Red Star Premier Blanc yeast, some energizer and nutrient got a head start. SG was up to 1.080. Air lock started thumping the next day. I plan to rack it to a 2ndary fermenter (1 GAL...

I've been making sparkling hard cider from store-bought juice for some time now. Aldi has an organic Apple Juice for about 2 bucks a 1/2 gallon. I get good results using Red Star Premier Blanc, basically a champagne yeast. I crank up the OG to about 1.060 with added sugar and get about 8 1/2%...