Recent content by Ladeeluk

How has your pineapple cider progressed? I tried the ACE pineapple on tap at The Yard House restaurant and it was tasty. I may wait until I have a nice batch of neutral dry cider to experiment with. Just wondering if you were able to keep the pineapple funk from getting out of hand. :D

6 gallons with tree top 3 apple blend, dark brown sugar and clover honey with k1v-1116 Put together on St. patty's Day. 158+6=164

LHBS only had Fermax and Potassium Carbonite. I've ordered some DAP from morebeer.com. I did pick up a hydrometer and a tube thing. It read 1.052. I'm glad I left that headroom in the carboy because when I added the tbsp of Fermax and tsp of K Carbonite is fizzed up quite a bit even after...

That's for the quick reply. I will definitely swing by the brew store and pick some stuff up tomorrow. In the meantime, I took the airlock off the carboy and swirled everything around to degas a bit. I am surprised at how strong the orangey smell was even with only 2 clementines in there.

Hopefully this works. LOL Made my first batch of home-anything on 10 Mar. I don't own a hydrometer yet so that's on my list of things to buy. Used a 6.5 gallon carboy with 15# of clover honey from Costco. Left about a half gallon of space in case of a volcanic fermentation. Cooled off...

I finally made the plunge into this time vampire called staring at my airlock. LOL Picked up some used stuff from Craigslist to get started with (6.5 gallon carboys, ferm buckets...he threw in a wine filtration thingy and a floor corker). I have a turkey fryer setup that I think I'll be...