Recent content by NerdrageIMO

Hello I started a 6 gallon batch of cider on 7/7/16. Approx 11-12 weeks ago. The OG was around 1.065, so the abv would have landed around 8.5%. At about a month, I took gravity readings and the batch had zeroed out at 0.990 to 1.000. So, I added brown sugar and a couple cans of apple...

Campden into the must, 30 hours or so before pitching the yeast. Final gravity is dry... between 1.000 and 1.002... It doesn't taste like honey... It smells like the rest of the meads I've made. It just kinda tastes sour.. like a sour patch kid without the bite and without the sweetness...

I pitched a 5 gallon BOMM using vanilla beans, raw blackberry honey (1 gallon), the 1388 Belgian strong ale yeast suggested in a recipe I found online, and filtered water.. I took the sterilization steps and the campden steps. It was pitched near the end of May, so it sat until now. I took a...

Right! I wasn't exactly in the right state of mind when I said that. It's at 16 now. And it's starting to clear up, so I think the yeast is either dead or out of food. I guess a good rule of thumb is to just wait until it's cleared and settled, rack, then repitch before bottling...

This is if the cider has fermented completely dry, right? Right now I think the yeast is on its last legs. The fermentation has slowed down a lot... It's at 1.004.. Usually it ferments to around 0.990.. You think it would just be ok to pitch part of a raspberry yeast starter that went to...

Hello. I've gotten into making ciders and meads last year. I'm going big for this personal batch of Apple wine. It got up to around 16%. All of my apple based beverages ferment to dryness in about a month. They begin to smell normal after about two months. My go to yeast is ec-1118...

Hello. My name is Tristan I am currently a novice home brewer. Currently, as far as experience, I have three gallons of mead under my belt, along with several gallons of cider/apple wine. I live in the Pacific Northwest with a background in the IT field. I am an enrolled member...