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Just tell people that if they're interested, you will brew them a batch at cost. Or you can maybe grab a six pack from it as payment. That should keep them off your back for a while.

Yeah I cant make beer fast enough. Between me and my family/friends it doesnt last long.

Yes she does. Shes throwing a fit right now because I dumped apple juice on her.

I might not be much help but ill tell you what i did for my first cider. I used a gallon of storebought cider and added one and a half cups of brown sugar to it. I used a wyeast smack pack meant for cider. I kept thinking it wasnt fermenting, but after I tested the gravity it turned out to be...

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I saw a couple people mentioned dumping apple juice/cider on the yeast cake, so I just did that last night. It was a lite brown ale with blueberries and blackberries. I oxegenated the crap out of it btw. Its literally churning now. Awesome.

Just for fun I dumped a bunch of apple juice on top of the yeast cake last night. It was bubbling almost instantly. This morning, nothing. Isnt chemistry fun? Edit - Wow, now its literally churning. Yeast cake finally kicked in. Never seen anything like this. (Of course its only my 5th brew).

I used this in my brown ale. I was about to re-pitch because there was no activity in the airlock. I ended up sloshing it around, which produced some activity for a day or two, then nothing. I decided to wait until secondary and take a reading. It was at 1.014! This yeast is a sneaky one. It...

I had this beer a few weeks ago and I would like to make something similar. I'll be looking around at ideas but thought I would see if anyone else enjoyed it as much as I did, and as a beginner id love to get any advice for the recipe.

Just wanted to mention that I'm doing a cold crash right now with my beer. Trying to get all the floating fruit pulp to settle. Its been about 8 hours and things seem to be slowely collecting at the bottom. Might be something helpful to do before bottling a fruit beer. Also I just want to...

I agree with Nicole although ive never tried either. From what ive gathered (since I'm adding fruit to my beer tonight) a pretty widely used method is to puree the fruit and add it to the secondary. I bought some frozen fruit, thawed it, pureed it, and stuck it back in the freezer just to be...

Yeah it shouldnt hurt anything. Its already in there so no use worrying about it. :)

Be careful with lavender - not that ive tried it but many will find it tastes like soap. This is due simply to lavender being overused in soaps. If I were to try it out, I would probably add it to the secondary and let it soak for a bit, assuming the alchohol would draw it out. Also i would...

I got 12 oz of blackberries and 12 oz of blueberries. Frozen. I let them thaw, blended them, and put them back in the freezer in a bag just to make sure It's extra sanitized. I'll just break it up later and add it still frozen. By batch is a little over 5 gallons. At least 5.5. I'm thinking...

Hi everyone, beginner here. I came up with this recipe for what I thought would be an amber ale, but I racked to secondary and it tasted a lot like Newcastle Brown Ale. Fine with me! I'm pleasantly surprised. But now I'm considering adding fruit. I'm thinking either blackberries or blueberries...

Update: I racked it and its quite dark, about the color of a brown ale. Tastes like one too. Reminds me of Newcastle. No significant hop aroma/taste. Very good though, I like it. Now that its tasting darker, I'm thinking about adding some blueberries or blackberries. Not to get off topic, and we...

I would bet it would make a good fertilizer, mixed with your spent grains and maybe some leaves from the yard. Then you can use it as fertilizer in your hops garden :)

I was going to break out the hydrometer today but I think now that it appears active I'll let it sit for a bit. I'll test it again when I rack it. Is it actually possible for the yeast to be fermenting without the c02 byproduct? Seems unlikely that it would be finished fermenting that fast...

Wow that totally worked. I swirled it up real good last night and its bubbling again today. Thanks!

I'll do that after I give it a few days. Though I did take a reading after adding the extra gallon of water, and I'm fairly sure it hasn't bubbled since. I'm not well versed in the ways of yeast though so I definitely will check. I was raised on well water so I definitely know when I'm...