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hey all so i come to you all for help. im looking at a yeast cake of us05 i used for a simple apple cider. just racked into secondary today after 7 days fermenting. fermentation has slowed but not finished. my question is can i use some of the yeast cake to make some bread? i was thinking...

Yes they are malted grains used specifically for brewing. They sell them in the home brew section with the kits dme lme etc.

Thank you for your encouragement. I feel better about it now. After the flurry of initial comments I felt like everyone was saying my beer was ruined and I'm an idiot. It is bubbling away so something is fermenting. I really did it more for the fun of it and fermenting something new. Thx

That's super high gravity. I don't know if the yeast will start in that. If they don't you may need a starter. Also its a lot of cinnamon. I've found 1 stick per gallon to be a lot. Next time I'm gonna use only a half of a stick. But other than that if it ferments dry you will have very...

Well I guess I goofed. That's what I get for winging it. Could I add more dme? Would this make it better. Also I tasted it and it didn't taste astringent at all. I do however like astringent things like barley tea strong black tea etc. It just tasted like malty sweet with hoppy finish

hello all well i decided tonight to make my 1st beer by myself, me and a friend have made a few kit brews together with great success. i have also been brewing cider with alot of success aswell. so today i set out to make a beer by myself. i decided on a gallon batch. so i bought about 2.5...

I used 2 fluid ounces per gallon. And no pasteurizing

it was a month from the begining of fermentation till i racked into secondary, but it was at final gravity after a week, sat for 3 more to see if it would settle better and let the yeast clean up any by products. i forget the exact start date but it was around early march

I always have gallon batches going lol. But I'm leaving for a month in June. No big batches till after I get home

6 ounces ajc for 3 gallons. I used 1 gal to make apple jack

well today i cracked open my 1st ever aged cider, everything else ive made has gone straight from primary into bottle. this cider was as follows: 5 cans concentrate aj 10lbs juiced granny smith 1lb juiced danjou pears 1lb juiced pink pacific apples 2lb brown sugar, water to bring to 4...

damn if only i had access to delicious chemical flavorings :(

anyone else try this? its pretty good and really how i wish my graff had turned out. but im wondering how i can make something close to it. says its a wheat ale brewed with cider. so should i make a wheat ale with cider instead of part of the water?

Yes you will concentrate methanol. But methanol is already produced in home brew cider you use for this. Drinking the jack is the same as drinking 3 times the volume in cider. If you can drink 3 ciders fine you can drink the equivalent volume of jack just as well. Also the reason methanol is...

It was pretty simple. Froze cider in plastic bottles then simply inverted them and let it drain into a pot then collected the liquid till ice was mostly white and no longer had color in it. Then bottled the concentrated cider. Boom apple jack