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When you say grocery store, are you talking about sweet cider or apple juice? I know a lot of people on here use apple juice, but imo that's not really hard cider. They are 2 different things. Even cider that I typically see in grocery stores is usually pasteurized and often has...

There are definitely some commercial cider companies here in Vermont that have done hard cider with honeycrisp. It's certainly no cider apple, but to me you would probably get a better flavor profile than using something like Macs, which to me have no flavor. If you had some crab apples or...

cool set of prizes

Thanks for all the ideas guys. For some reason I didn't get notified when people responded, probably have my profile set up wrong or something. I'm thinking about just getting some Lexan containers, but I've also been eyeing some sort of Foodsaver anyway since I also need a way to store the...

I've done a few rounds of curing bacon and like to use the large ziploc bags (2.5 gallon). However, the Hefty jumbo Slider Bags are crap. Half the time the zipper doesn't even work the first time, which defeats the purpose. Anybody else having bad luck with these? Obviously if you are going...

Wow, some amazing prizes this year.

Just tasted one of the batches, which used 1/3 crabapple, 1/3 russet and 1/3 of a blend of Macs, Empire, Cortlandt, etc. Nottingham yeast. Started off at around 1.05 (no added sugars) and I cold crashed it around 1.01. Tasted much better than I hoped. Pretty tart, but I kinda like it that...

Brewed this on Saturday. One of the best smelling mashes/worts I've done in awhile.

Been a long time homebrewer, also played around with cider a bit either by letting unpasteurized stuff go hard naturally or using apple juice with champagne yeast. We moved to Vermont last year and I wanted to look into making cider a little more seriously since we have awesome access to both...

Brewed this yesterday, it was my second all grain recipe although I've been extract/partial mash brewing for quite awhile. Was looking for a saison recipe and based on all the chatter here this seems like a good one. I added a little bit of coriander and bitter orange peel just because I like...