funny i'm on my way to dayton right now, in an airport...
Belmont Party Supply
2621 South Smithville Rd.
Dayton, OH 45420
they didn't have Three Floyds last time i was in Ohio but they did have Founders
What is the best descriptor of the off flavor taste? The big problem with filtering your yeast and bottling, if you naturally carbonate you might come into issues as you have removed most (if not all) the yeast.
I've never frozen my juice for my ciders before I just use metabisulfite. If you seal the container after adding the metabisulfite you shouldn't have a problem. But I might add more sulfite before using in case something got into the container while in the fridge.
I built an electric brew kettle and use a CF chiller. I set the kettle up with a braided SS tube wraped around the kettle to keep the hops out of my pump. I brewed my first batch and it worked awesome until it got to the bottom of the kettle and there was a lot of wort left behind. Anybody...
if you are using them toward the end of your boil you won't get much bitterness anyway. I would probably use a little dme and calculate down to a super small batch and boil for 60 minutes and taste after it cools. Just remember that around 5 ounces of wet hops is equal to around 1 ounce of...
Using sorbate like that is trial and error as far as I know, the easiest way would be to bottle with out sorbate in the glass, minus one bottle in a similar sized plastic bottle. Once the plastic bottle feels hard as a rock put all the soda in the fridge and it should be good.