Recent content by that-dude-rick

it's in secondary, there's very little fermentation going on which is good. question, i know head space is bad, but home much is acceptable? i have a "one gallon" glass jug that is, in reality, a little more than 1-gallon, so of course the secondary right now has a bit less than a gallon, so i...

great thanks for the help.

thanks. i'm gonna add this info to a sort of log i'm going to start keeping, so i don't have to search the forums all the time and get mixed info lol. just going to start compiling it all. i wanted to bottle carbonate, and i have another batch that's 2 days behind this one, so what should i...

funny thing is he runs a home brew store :eek: alright, secondary it is then. i will do that soon, but also should it still sit out or should it be in the refrigerator? Ive also heard about adding cinnamon sticks and adding other stuff in secondary. what's some thoughts on this? i also...

nothing special here, just a gallon of cider and half pound brown sugar. og was ~1.060 before brown sugar. it's been 6.5 days now since i pitched yeast, activity is very minimal now and fg should be below 1.000 now. can i rack straight to the secondary carboy? I was told something about...

Thanks. I know the rhino fart smell, and the Barsotti's cider i have going right now with brown sugar and honey with s-04 yeast is smelling like rotten eggs a bit. At least it smells like apple still. I checked gravity earlier on the Boa Vista cider? it was about 1.010. Geeze, that's a lot to...

Ok but why does the cider smell that way and is it anything to worry about?

Also should it haave been in the refrigerator while the campden tablet was doin its thing? I did this the first time i made hard cider. This time i didn't

So I'm still really new at this and would like some insight. I didn't have any sanitizing solution, so i used campden tablets to sanitize my gallon jug I'm fermenting in, and everything else. So i have a gallon of boa vista cider, dropped a Campden tab in, waited 24 hours, rehydrated red star...

Hmm i wonder how many members on here are from the San Joaquin Valley? Anyways my name is Rick. I did a gallon batch of cider last year with a wine yeast (all i know is it was made in australia), and it turned out really well for being my first time, plus I fermented it in the plastic gallon...