I need to investigate these blow off set ups, i just lost about 2 gallons to a geyser of foamy beer this morning. What a freaking mess it cause. 6 gallons in a 6.5 carboy was a mistake with no blow off.:( Im just glad we were home.
Huge typo on my part sorry:
1lbs of 60 L crystal malt, not a hop addition at all.
I didnt add any hops as I uhad light hopped malt extract already.
It is cooking away, I have never used nottinghams yeast, that stuff has a frosty head on it for sure. :p
I just made the recipie
with 1 lbs cascade 60lbs steeped in applejuice at 165-170 for 40 min.
nottingham yeast
1.75 lbs Muntons light hopped LME
5 gallons motts. I put it in a 6gal carboy so when it calms down I am going to top off the carboy with an additional gallon of motts apple juice...
I had to add a half a jar of instant tea and 3 frozen lemonade containers as well as sugar to get some taste back to it. I think I used montrochet yeast and that helped contribute to the nasty flavor. I will try a different yeast and maybe less sugar so it might taste better next time. its...
I added a 1/2 a bottle of instant tea to my 5 gallon batch, 2 cups of sugar, and 3 Minute Maid frozen concentrates, pretty tasty now even with a a$$ load of alcohol :drunk:bite. I will bottle it up this weekend.
I didnt mean I wont drink cause I will. But did yours retain any tea flavor cause mine seems to have none. Did you also add sugar or just lemonade concentrate?
So I just racked off my tea to kill the fermentation before I back sweeten it. I followed firstentens recipe....WoW is this nasty:drunk::tank: with out being sweetnd. Imight need to add more sweetstuff than 2 cup of sugar and 2 lemonade concentrates. Its pretty harsh now, its only 2 months...
No instructions, I will take a pic of the pail it came in and maybe someone here might have made a batch. I doubt it was ever frozen cause wouldnt that have killed the wild yeasts? It was refrigerated when I bought it.
Ok I checked my notes and I used D-47 yeast. The Sg when I opened it(bubling of course) was 1.02 and after adding the sugar and yeast nutrient and new yeast it sayes 1.03 from 2/4/09. BTW the place I bought the juice California wine grapes in Downtown Detriot was rude when I called about the...
yes but sadly it had started to ferment b4 I started. So I dont really have a starting point. I did add a yeast nutrient, 4 cups sugar and the montrochet yeast. after I did a camden tablet treatment to try and kill the wild fermentation that started. My question was as it was just a juice how...