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My couple batches I've gotten up in 1.090 range pitch nottingham, ferment at 64ish (basement temp), let it go to 1.010 or less then backsweeten at bottling... I store the bottles right away at 32ºF for still or let carb for a couple days using plastic bottle for a guage, I used 2 and recomend 3...

Linda - how much coffee did you use? I was thinking of doing a javacider...

Thanks safa! Have you used the pumpkin spice or similar blend before? I love the vanilla idea...

Mostly thinking high aau hops so you dont have to use as much... and I have some on hand...

My guess is that it will last a week or two but really drop off after that, especially if you used the oxygen absorbing caps on your bottles... reading research from sam adams and other industry people the oxygen caps used "suck up" the hop aromas/flavors, since we taste mostly by smell, that is...

Ok so wife and I were talking last night on the way home and she reminded me that I needed to get making the caramel apple cider that I made last year... she wanted a batch to celebrate our new one in october plus a well aged one for the holidays and a friend asked me to make one... anyway I...

Stopped at a shop today and they were using coconut sugar... one of them said it imparts a kind of tropical fruit essence... thought that might add well to this brew as well... I also picked up some tapioca syrup at another shop I may sub some sorghum out for...

Have used the tapioca syrup or did you just see it at the lhbs? Reviews if you've used it?

I just picked up a 7lb jug of tapioca syrup... jug says its a gf fermentable that replaces lme 1:1... I'll post a pic soon. anybody used it?

Lallemand/danstar has a belle saison dry yeast thatvis gf... might be wotth a shot...

I would assume if you are going for an orangy citrusy blonde I would get my hands on some orange blossom honey... I usually add half my extracts at begining of boil and half at end, last 5 min... after playing with my cream ale this spring I would reccomend an appropriatly citrusy hop like...

My neighbor picked his gish emulsion up st home depot... I was gonna trade him a months worth of dosing for a coiplenhome brews soni dont have a whole bottle of stinky stuff layin around if it didnt work, I maynjust go get some now...

I don't get much fruity/sweet flavor... mostly the candi and sorghum twang... I did half the sorghum and half the candi at begining and half at end plus used notty... I'm curious how some tapica syrup in place of the sorghum would do...

I started my lemonade today... 1 gal. Simply lemonade 8 oz. Corn sugar (dextrose) 1/2 pkg. Nottingham ale yeast Og 1.072 or 9.5% potential abv. I am going to let this ferment out and see how it does... and decide if I need to backsweeten, carb etc...

I know this post is old, but I think I remember reading somewhere you want to boil for min of 45min. Something with extracting enough alpha/beta acids to act as your preservatives or something my fream ale last summer was a 45min boil and only beer to not age well...

Just picked up a tester "kit" for doing som experimenting... if your jot wanting to drop much coin before getting some more batches under your belt... 2 gal glass jugs $5.35/ea 2 #6 holed stoppers $1/ea 2 3 piece air locks $2.65/ea I have a hydrometer from my beer stuff and only need to pick up...

I have not tried it but I have a packet of llalemands saison to try in the higher temp range... I agree with the comment that if you dont want to, or cant adjust the environment to fit the brew you have to adjust the brew to fit the environment... good luck!!!

Last batch I did out of concentrate I bought 14 or 15 if I recall and 3 were for back sweetening, the rest made the juice, added 1 can of concentrate without the water to. Bump the og... ended up around 9%...

If you really want to add to thd creaminess maybe half and half or 3 to 1 sugar to lactose...

So the wife tried a small sip the other day and gave me the go ahead on thinking about making some more... its still got a bit of the metallic twang to it that sorghum beers seem to have, but it is def getting better with age... swmbo will not be able to drink it til november so it has plenty of...