Recent content by silenceofthesheep96

To preface this recipe, I will say that I am not a purist. I like easy drinking brew that I can enjoy less a one month. The problem is, I do not have the equipment to brew a beer. I have made a couple of ciders, skeeter pee, and a hard lemonade recipe. I liked the hard lemonade recipe because it...

On my first batch of Skeeter Pee, I just hydrated the yeast... and it failed. Five days and zero fermentation. I had a slurry from a hard lemonade batch (which successfully fermented with only hydrating the yeast), so I pitched that and it started to ferment. I have consistently seen...

Hey guys. I just took the gravities of a 12 day old brew and I am a bit worried. I got about 13% alcohol. I tried it and whoah! it is dry. Now, that batch has just about stopped bubbling and I know that I can back sweeten before bottling. However, I started another batch on 10/07/2014 and I do...

Hey guys. This is my first post, and of course, I am going to start with a noob question. I bought some Nottingham Danstar ale yeast on the recommendations of multiple forum posts. I pitched it to some cider with gravity of 1.082 (after bumping it with some brown sugar). Can I expect it to...