Recent content by -Kai-

Well I am happy to report this has turned out wonderfully. In the end, I had about 3.5 gallons of cider after fermentation on the dry end of sweet. Skipping the brown sugar, I added 5 bottles of 17oz Ume extract and have let it carb up 4 days. Its sparkling, not too sweet, not too dry...

So...I have a brewing theme going on involving plums. Its just a thing, go with it. Cider was next on the list. I found Sceneater's Southern Sweet recipe over here and it sounded like the way I like my cider. As I have no keg but like sparkling cider, I always stove pasteurize following...

Hi! I'm going about this brewing thing all backwards :) My first project was sake, followed by honey mead. Now I'd like to try a hard cider, but, I clearly have no experience with anything carbonated. As my equipment consists of an extra fridge on a Ranco Themostat, a couple 5 gallon ferment...