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Just pitched on the following variant: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/thunderstruck-pumpkin-ale-ag-extract-versions-26699/index118.html#post4459173 My OG is sitting about about 1.061!? Hmm, well, here's to hoping...

I'll try your Ffarg recipe after I get done with my pumpkin ale around turkey day. This stuff, while enjoyable, is too dry and a little bland for my liking. I'm not really getting any apple or tartness out of it at all. I ended up dumping the batch I was bulk aging due to infection. Lesson...

I didn't. Well, I did, but only if you count using straight cider to sweeten a bit.

I ended up racking one batch and backsweetening and bottling the other. The 1.003 was the one that got sweetened and bottled. I brought the FG up to about 1.01. Now I'm just hoping I don't get gushers from over-carbing. I am doing the plastic soda bottle thing so, here's to hoping... (the posts...

What do you think about about my gravity readings scottsaxman? I'm concerned that it won't be sweet enough at 1.003 & 1.006. I'm still wondering if I should rack today and bottle next weekend (9/29) or bottle THIS weekend and bottle condition for a few weeks... As for taste, right now it's...

OK, same readings today, so I'm assuming it's ready to bottle? I'm thinking of lightly backsweetening with straight cider, bottling and then baby sitting it so I can avoid bombs by pasteurizing when my plastic test bottle gets hard. Then, I'll just give them about three weeks to condition in the...

Yeah, I meant a month from start to swallow. I took another reading and it's right where it was. (1.003 & 1.006). I'm currently on the fence about backsweetening and bottle conditioning this weekend if I get the same reading tomorrow...:confused:

OK, now I'm a little concerned... I just took a reading and I'm getting 1.003-1.006 after pitching my Notty Saturday night!? Is this normal? I was under the impression this was to go about a month!? Am I to prime this stuff if I'm planning on bottle carbing? Any idea's? Should I get to...

Well, lesson learned. I'm not worried about it though, I'm wanting my finished product to be cloudy and "imperfect", so... Perhaps when I next brew something similar I'll send it through one of those bags.

Woke up this morning to about 1/4 inch of sediment. It seems the yeasties are keeping things stirred up in there. I'll not bother with racking it since it's only running its course for around 4 weeks...

+10 2520.

OK, I'll give it a week and then rack it. It'll only be going for another three weeks or so after that, so... <undecided.gif> EDIT: Sorry, L, missed your post. I agree. It's just something I've not seen before. Then again, any hard ciders I've seen, at the beginning of the process/in pics...

Hmm, well, as I said, I JUST pitched the yeast when I last posted. The stuff you see in the pic was there PRIOR to pitching. I suppose I'll let it settle a day or so and rack to remove that stuff...

Thanks for that PattyM, I'll leave it in place then.:mug:

And this? I stirred it up when I pitched the yeast so it's not settled just yet...