Recent content by Lumpyhead

This is awesome, I wish I liked pumpkin beers more! Let us know how it turns out!

Don't know if it makes a difference, but my fermentation (at least the bubbling) did not start for a week. I gave the batch some oxygen after a week of inactivity and then the bubbling started the next day. Could the delayed fermentation have had something to do with the sulfur smell?

Hey thanks for the feedback guys! Next time I will do more to tend to the cider and not rush it so much. However I am more into beer brewing, so I probably won't be brewing hard cider again for a while.

Haha thanks Dragonmead, I like what you said about future kids getting into nasty cider.

Being a newbie to brewing hard cider, I did not know if sulfur smell was normal and I did not think much of it. So I went ahead and bottled it. That being said, will the strong sulfur smell from the Cider get better as it bottle ages? It is a micro batch, only yielded about 8 bottles. However I...