Recent content by stoutman78

Good to hear! We thought the same thing too :-). If you used the treetop recipe, which is what I did, the startin gravity should have been pretty close, so you could estimmte based on that....somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.06-1.062. So they're probably in the upper seven to eight percent range.

Well my wife convinced me to hook up the cider to the co2 and fast carb it....so we got to try some semi carbonated, semi cold last night....it was very good :-) will def have to keep this in my rotation!

I just accomplished that! Yay! Well partially anyway. I bottled a case and kegged the rest. here's how it all went down: Original gravity 1.062 Final gravity 1.005 time in primary: 23 days No secondary Final ABV 7.47% When I added the bottling sugar to the bucket it fizzed up a...

I'll have to let it sit for a but more then. I just get impatient with new things :-)

Cool deal! Count me in

Hey mach9 small world indeed! I just checked the gravity yesterday (2 weeks into fermentation) and it was at 1.005. I started at 1.062 so this is telling me it's at about 7.5% right now. I have no idea if that's as good as I'll get. It tasted pretty smooth! I was wondering how low the gravity...

OK :-) finally got a fermenting bucket free to do this thing! Gonna try Ed's apfelwein and see how she goes! I'll be back in a month or so to post an update. Cheers and happy brewing all!

Thanks for all the helpful advice all! I am going to order the dextrose needed for Ed's apfelwein and get that going as soon as my pumpkin spice is in bottles (I'm boiling the wort as I type :-) I'll post again as soon as it's done! see ya in a couple of months on this!!

Cool! Thanks for all the helpful feedback. I'll have to check out the recipes but I think I'll end up trying multiple ones...just gotta figure out where to start :cross: BTW @Calder, what is a good non-fermentable sugar to use for back-sweetening? I've only used lactose....would that work?

OK - newbie to this site :o just saw the wiki up top and got a quick and dirty overview of cider brewing...seems easy enough even if I wanted to go the cheap store-bought apple juice way. So a follow up would be - is it worth it to go the easy store-bought juice way? Any tricks to get it...

Hi all, been doing home brewing for about six months now (beer only) and my wife wanted to know if I could make a cider for her. I said sure no prob...I'll just grab a kit next time I order from morebeer. BUT, upon checking it doesn't look like they have such a thing. :o My question is: a)...