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You should just get another half gallon of cider. Cider naturally ferments to around 5 or 6%. Adding water and sugar can keep the abv at this level, but will take away that good cider flavor. So I would just use 1 gallon of cider, and if you want to boost the abv, you can add a half pound or so...

Does anybody have any opinions on what makes a great beer for spring? I've been looking (unsuccessfuly) to find a recipe that would work for those months that are no longer winter, but denfinitely not summer. The rest of the seasons have specific beers, so why doesn't spring? Or does it and I...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I can't find mugwort, so im using wormwood. I used it in my first gruit, and made sure not to over do it and I think i will use it in the fruit gruit as well. I think I'm going to go for the higher OG and try and bring out a strong fruity taste to go along with...

After trying my first homebrewed gruit, i've decided i love it. It definitely needs some time to mellow out because of its high abv and strong herbal presence. Anyway, I'm thinking it would make an excellent ale for Spring, and I was wondering if it would be a good base for a fruit ale (yes...

I just opened a bottle of my gruit, and I am very pleased with the result. I was worried with the taste when I was bottling, but it has ended up with a nice balance. Here is the recipe if you want to give any feedback. 1 1/2 lbs two row malt 1 1/2 lbs crystal 10l 1 gallon of water .1oz...

how much of those herbs did you add?

I used a cedar branch in my sahti because I couldnt find any fresh junper branches, and it also has about an ounce of juniper berries for a one gallon batch. Did the pumpernickle come through in the final product? I want my sahti to have a nice rye flavor to it

So I've been getting into medeival brewing and traditional, pre-hops recipes. I have a gruit bottle conditioning and a sahti in primary. I'm excited to try the gruit, which I bittered with yarrow, wild rosemary and wormwood in place of sweet gale. I was wondering what recipes anyone has tried...

it was 1.012

i didnt get an OG, but i checked the gravity 3 time 2 days apart each after two weeks and there was no change so I bottled.

It was 2/3 cups of loose brown sugar, but the beer may have been too warm when I opened it, which I found caused gushing (only after having opened a bottle). Still, it seemed like a ton of carbonation for only 5 days.

So i bottled five days ago and used 2/3 cups of brown sugar to prime my first batch. It was a five gallon batch and it had finished fermenting. Today I opened one to test, and it foamed out of the top for about a minute, until i poured some into a glass. I dont think it is infected, but I from...

So my recipe and instructions call for a week of fermentation for an amber ale. It has been a week, and it looks like fermentation is over, although I don't have a hydrometer to verify. I have decided to leave the beer in the primary, rather than rack it to a secondary, and am wondering when I...