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Yeah I forgot to mention I had one blow up. Hopefully they should stabilize and chill out now right? It makes me tempted to like pour them all in the bottling bucket and re-bottle.

Kind of an overdue update. After 2 weeks in bottles I tried one. It cleared up and tasted decent! I was stoked. They had been sitting in my spare bedroom with the heat off so 50-60*. I had to turn the heat of for a guest after that first 2 weeks. I tried another bottle (these are 22oz) at about...

I'll take em!

Just bottled 29 22s of cider. After 2.5 weeks in the secondary fermenter it finished at 1.000. I added 1/4 cup per gallon of light brown sugar to Carb it and some stevia to back sweeten it. Doing the math starting with an OG of 1.073 it came to 7.6 ABV. It tastes kind of wine like. It really...

So after two weeks it is still bubbling away. I racked it to the secondary. Fermentation is now more vigorous. I think I may have aerated it a bit, I didn't realize the hose was pointing up in the carboy. So the first couple gallons may have gotten a bit aerated. I managed to leave behind the...

IPA. Luckily Harvester has made a good GF IPA. Too bad its not on tap...

Well its still bubbling away. Its been 5 days, and going strong. Temp is between 60-65 degrees. I can see it has quite a bit of krausen, or whatever it would be called in the headspace. looking forward to bottling. We also have some apple cider vinegar going and that is really taking off too. I...

Haha. Well that is what I was told to use at my LHBS. It kills anything that ends up in it. Its good potato vodka too, Monapolowa, I really don't drink much cheap booze these days.

That dirt bugs you huh? A little OCD? I love things to be clean, but there are sooo many things I would rather do than clean. I don't always clean, but when I do its usually the garage. The kitchen is more her department.

Thanks! Yeah I'm leaving it alone for 2 weeks. I bought a bunch of used equipment, most of the airlocks don't have caps. I'll put one on it. That's not water though. Its vodka.

So I have finally gotten my first batch going. I have three large apple trees in my back yard, and this year I rented a cider press, bought a bunch of brewing equipment (I plan to brew Gluten Free beer too!) and finally made it happen. I don't know the variety of Apples, except that there look...