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I had (and really enjoyed) a pint of it at 65 degrees (and uncarbonated) today when I took a large gravity sample... clearly I don't stick by my "straight from the fridge" statement.

If he bottles, how about $35 worth of nice new fliptops?

Good question, I wonder what other folks prefer, too. I like it straight out of the fridge.

I was going to ask you about this when you posted last weekend... so how much wort did you have before adding the sliced apples? 1 gallon? Or did you substitute the 4 gallons of juice with 4 gallons of water?

It'll be pretty dry if you let it drop from 1.058 to 1.000 - you can avoid that next time by either catching it before it drops that low (cold crashing, racking a few times, sulfites), or backsweetening it. When you say it's sour, do you mean tart? Again, with the low FG it'll be dry and tart...

Kinda fart-ish? Yep, normal.

1.074? That sounds high, but hey, no complaints, right? I've been getting 1.06x, but perhaps we're using different brands of DME. Did you use any Crystal?

Yeah, I didn't think their distribution footprint was quite that big. I go to the Portsmouth Brewery about once a month... next time I'm there I'll have a few on your behalf!

I'm not a scientist - that said, the sulfur dioxide that the tablets (sodium metabisulfite) generate kills microorganisms, but it dissipates - hence the treating in advance. It kills the wild yeast, peters out to a non-lethal level, and then you can safely pitch your desired yeast...

Nice! As an aside - is Smuttynose available out your way?

Oh, hell, to be honest, I don't even bother treating the off-the-shelf juice from the grocery store, just the sticky, crooked labeled gallons of fresh pressed I get at the orchard (and yeehaw, it's apple season right now!). It certainly can't hurt, though!

Hey Stomp - sorry, it's one tablet per gallon. Again, I'm sure you'll get varying opinions on this topic, but that's the the rule as far as I'm concerned. In the past, I've dropped a tablet in each individual gallon of cider two nights before brewing, perhaps because I'm in the habit of...

Oh, Stomp, also, make sure it says "100% apple juice" - not that it says "100% juice" with a picture of an apple on the front, because when they don't say "100% apple juice", you can be sure that there's cheaper juice mixed in. The front of the package can give one impression, yet the...

I just wanted to quickly point out that Mott's for Tots is simply diluted apple juice - it contains 54% apple juice and 46% water. THAT'S how it contains less sugar. Look for apple juice with that's labeled "100% apple juice" and you're set. Additional Vitamin C is okay (but not at all...

Welcome! I used to live in North Salem and later in Mamaroneck. I'm in Portland, now, though...

I'm glad you took that in the spirit intended. :o On a light note, my fathers side of the family is from SI - my grandmother has been living in the same house in Rosebank for probably 80 years, and she turned 101 this week!

Did you have a lot of siblings, by chance?

Well, that was my good deed for the day - I think I'll treat myself to a beer. :mug:

Kbuzz - that's strange, when I made a functional URL I included some extraneous characters, so if you clicked the link, it was broken, but if you copied and pasted it, it was fine. I fixed the link, so it should work now - actually, it's appearing as an embedded video. FWIW a non-clickable...

Wildman - Your link looks funny to us, as it's formatted for mobile devices, so we get a really stripped down page, and the desired video ID is embedded in the URL, but it's not getting translated correctly. I suspect that my url looks funny to you, because I'm watching it on a regular...