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Maylar replied to the thread I cook my cider for three days. Someone Please Stop Me.To that end, "cooked apples" is a flaw that you'd be gigged for if you enter a cider comp. -
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Except the flavor that you are "preserving" is cooked apples and not the bright flavor of fresh pressed juice. Brewers need heat to help... -
Homebrewed mead flight left to right traditional 13.5% clover honey mead, traditional 14.3% fall wildflower mead, clover honey with...
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When I hear cork soaking, my brain immediately goes here!
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Maylar replied to the thread What I did for/with Mead today.Resist the temptation to rack too soon. You must let every drop of that stuff settle out else you get this really nasty medicinal taste...
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I'm trying hard to think of a more elaborate way to lose a finger and welp, I'm just flummoxed. Bravo, one thumbs up.
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I like synthetic corks better than regular corks too. Whether they are Neocorks or Nomacorks or one of the others. They sanitize...
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Maylar replied to the thread Corking a bottle with a scissor jack.One of these with a plastic mallet works for me. But I only bottle a gallon at a time.
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Maylar reacted to Closet Fermenter's post in the thread Corking a bottle with a scissor jack with Like.
The Portugese double lever hand corker available oa Amazon is $20. I’ve used one for years. It couldn’t be easier, and it hangs on a...
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Not true. When I make hard cider (Brix 12.5 = SG 1.0505), the yeast has no problem starting.
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Maylar replied to the thread What I did for/with Mead today.Two or 3 12 oz. capped beer bottles is the typical requirement, usually 2. I usually bottle 6 so I can enter more than 1 comp.
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Bottled up 5 gallons of spiced cyser mead and also bottled 2-12oz bottles of it for a competition.
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Higher yeast pitch gets you less esters while a lower pitch gets you more esters... assuming that you have enough oxygen in the must.
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Maylar replied to the thread Fruit, Before or After Fermentation?."Trub" is the beer term for lees.
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It's either going to work, or you're going to earn a Darwin award.
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