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So, I happened across an unopened Mr. Beer refill kit at a local thrift store today for $2 (of course I bought it). It had 2 cans of extract and 2 yeast packets to make a 2 gallon batch of their oatmeal stout, which I figured I'd just use to boost up some random future kit I buy. The 'best by'...

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Do you have any primary documentation of the methodology? Most of what I can find consists of payroll records which show workers being partly paid with cider, tax rolls with orchard outputs, and images and examples of surviving presses. I haven't found any decent period sources for documentation...

I advance homebrewing by researching how ciders were brewed in the middle ages and attempting to re-create those techniques. I document my re-creations and teach other medieval reinactors, as well as sharing the fruits of my labors! I'm currently looking at gruit recipes that would have been...

So, I'm curious what differences, if any, I'll get with concentrating juice via freezing (standard Ice Cider methodology) vs. concentrating it via boiling. Note that for the purposes of this discussion I am working with a commercially produced juice that is pasteurized. I've concentrated via...

How much rhubarb per gallon are you adding? In the primary or in the secondary?

I've done a real simple dry-hopped cider like this as well, only I used .65 oz of Cascade hops, and it was a 3 gallon batch. It came out very citrusy. The next one I do like this will probably be the same amount of hops, but a full 5 ga. batch. I may switch up the hops, but because I still have...