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The ciders used do have sorbate in them, which appears to be the only preservative. The yeast temp range is 64-72° https://omegayeast.com/yeast/british-ales/british-ale-viii I expected/wanted the cider to ferment slowly, but expected to be closer to two to three weeks to get there, not six and...

Temp: 66-68°F Hydrometer, I have calculated temp compensation. I have not yet tasted any yet. I have moved the cider to a warmer area of the house, which I believe is more around 70°ish.

I will let it keep going then. I know I have gotten some air in from taking test samples and adding them back in, as well as likely when I tried swirling to mix up the yeast cake. How big of an issue is air, like this, in cider? I did not think it was a major issue, as it is when I make beer.

I started two one gallon batches of cider on 2/10, and they appear to still be fermenting. I initally used an older pack of yeast (Omega Yeast OLY-016 British Ale VIII) and ended up under pitching by a lot, but thought fermentation would just be slow to start. After about two weeks there was...

Legion Brewing Sainte & Juicy Jay. Then over to Wooden Robot & Sycamore, in Charlotte, NC.

Great, I'm in!

I'm using HotHead for the first time, and started it out at ambient temp 68°+/-. It's only three days in, and I can say at that temp it started bubbling w/in a few hours, and I noticed the bubbling starting to drop off after 24hrs, and was slow by 36-72hrs. I have since wrapped it in a heating...

I have not used the same calculator, however had a similar issue on my first batch, and second. I've used Brewer's Friend, https://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ and have found letting my beers sit at room temp for extended periods of time has helped greatly. My first batch of a...

I'll have to check the podcast out, at least for next time. Thank you!

Thanks. That's more or less what I've understood. I saw some place where fermentation started out at some temp 68°? Then after some set number of days or some point in the fermentation cycle they stepped up the temp, and did that I think 2 times. I wasn't sure if there's a prescribed course for...

I just pitched this yest yesterday and it is going crazy, with an ambient temp of 67-68°. I've read a couple places of some issues of the yeast stalling out when at ~68°, and was talking to someone at a LHBS, where they said the fermented it around 86° and got some interesting fruit/citrus...

I just brewed a NE IPA, with a twist today, and had been wondering the same. Through some digging you can go either way. I decided to filter the wort and remove majority of everything from the wort. I may try skipping filtering next time to see how it works out. I foundtje below article while...

Must have just missed you, I think we left just before 1.

Columbia Craft Brewing Company and Hunter Gatherer today.

Do you suggest using vodka over StarSan? Or are both more or less equal here?

@deadwolfbones thank you for the idea, I'll adjust to dry hopping at day three. @CascadesBrewer I'm not as concerned with producing a "good beer," as I am with testing flavor profiles. I have put two hop schedules into Brewers Friend that I am considering: Option 1: Estimated 48.31 IBU (first...

Thank you for all, the good info, I'm learning a lot here still. I think I've got a rough recipe put together based on combining a few I've seen around. 1 gal Water 1.25 lbs DME 1oz Hops Omega Yeast West Cost I (still figuring out how much to use) Heat water to less than boiling and add DME...

I had not seen that before, however it is basically what I was looking to do, since the recipe I planned to use was very similar, which I was looking to adjust. Basic Brewing mainly skips the bittering hops, and uses less water and DME, so it looks like I just have to decide on a batch size now...

When having the lid partly on, the length of boil be increased at all, or kept the same?

So, if I were to make, for example, a batch with Cascade and have the IBU's come out at 60, and make a second batch with Admiral coming out with 60 IBU's, with both hops added at 60min, would the bitterness taste be the same?