Recent content by Nothingfun

Yeah, totally. Nothing was going on by the end of the 60 days, plus I followed the stove top pasteurizing sticky on here just to be safe. What I've read and have been told is that champagne yeast can be pretty aggressive, I'm wary of things popping in my closet.

Not sure if it's really a cider or a wine, but since I followed the same overall recipe for cider I'm posting it here. Still a newbie to all this so bear with me. I used red star champagne yeast, pureed about 15 pounds peaches, removed all the stones of course and threw in 3 sliced up lemons as...

Ok, here's the low down. All three jugs were still cloudy, so sediment is still dropping out. Tasted very dry, a bit sour, very much like alcohol. Each jug had a slightly different flavor. Overall very dry cider taste. The blueberry mixture came out the best in my opinion, smells like port...

I'm all new to this stuff and sort did this haphazardly a few month ago and now I'm starting to take it a bit more seriously. So here's the story... I ended up with about 5 gallons of unpasteurized fresh cider a few months back, didn't have the freezer or fridge space, so I decided to try and...

Hello all. I'm new to brewing...anything. I inherited a pile of brewing stuff from a friend of the family, all of it looks to be in fantastic shape. And I have access to a good quantity of fruit juice so I sorta put two and two together :) So right now I've been playing with making Cider...