Recent content by tal32123

The following is a cider recipe I made, slightly tweaking a previous one I had. Just curious if this will produce a drink that is safe to drink and won't explode as a bottle bomb or any other crazy thing: Before you begin make sure everything that will touch your cider is sanitized properly...

I made hard cider by mixing a 1 gallon of pasteurized apple juice bottle with fleischmann's rapid rise yeast, cranberries, a couple tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, and a few days later I took off airlock (which is a balloon with tiny needle-hole) and put in raisins. I was wondering after how...

What I ended up doing was strained out the raisins, added a little bit of sugar, and then transferred to a coke bottle and placed in fridge. I'll try it in a few hours once its cool :D Very excited for my first batch of a drink that didn't end up green!

Ok thanks, at this point how should I continue. I am thinking add some sugar, transfer to soda bottle to carbonate. Then wait some days? Not sure how many days and if this is the correct way to proceed though.

Thanks for your response! Is that for my specific recipe as well? As instead of putting in half the yeast packet or so I put in the full thing, and I am trying to make it more than 2% alcoholic (I'm new to brewing).

I was making kvass, and have decided to make it a little more alcoholic. I made it using the following recipe: Slightly burn 3 pieces of toast, add to boiled water, and 1.5 handfulls of raisins. Wait 8 hours add active dry yeast, .5 cups regular sugar, .5 cups brown sugar. Mix everything. Put...

I was making kvass, and have decided to make it a little more alcoholic. I made it using the following recipe: Slightly burn 3 pieces of toast, add to boiled water, and 1.5 handfulls of raisins. Wait 8 hours add active dry yeast, .5 cups regular sugar, .5 cups brown sugar. Mix...