Recent content by LewisZ7Hunter

Unfortunately, it was custom made, and already delivered, so that wont work... Thanks for the input though, might have to bite the bullet, and be swimming in homemade whiskey for years.

So my sister is getting my dad (and by extension me - we brew together) a 20L oak barrel for Christmas. The plan is for us to use it to make "bourbon barrel aged" beers. Does anyone have any cost effective ways for us to "season" the barrel with liquor, to get it ready for the beer...

I thought I needed to since I wanted to sweeten it. Is that not the case?

So I am getting ready to finish my first cider, and want to make sure I get the steps right, and in the right order, so I was looking for some input. I have 5 gallons of cider that is ready to keg from a carboy, I would like to clear it and sweeten it, so my thought process on the order of...