Recent content by paulwells55337

I followed the recipe on the second page to a T. I did notice quite a bit of separation with the root beer extract settling to the bottom. Me personally, I preferred it this way, had a great beer taste with a slight hint of the root beer.

Did you check the temp before pitching the yeast? If it was too hot you may have killed it. Did you have a good seal on the fermenter? Poor seal could have allowed gas to leak out the side. Did you take a gravity reading to indeed verify there was no fermentation? Lack of bubbles in the...

I made this same recipe except in a bucket but I added 8 cloves and pumpkin pie spice boiled in vodka at 2nd racking. I've found that getting a good specific gravity reading is difficult because I think the pumpkin mixed with the cider causes a high reading. My first reading was 1.080. I...