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I've only made cider once, so far, using purchaces cider to which I added wine yeast. It came out about 10% alcohol, dry, with good flavor but very little aroma. I used a modification of a recipe in the book "The Alaskan Bootleggers Bible". I hope it's OK to post that.... I'm planning on...

Thanks! Nice to be here. Just curious, it looks like you folks have a format to your posts, and I gather I now need to figure out interesting names for each brew and my brewery? Are there any, um, standards, for such things?

Hi folks, Thought since I found this site and even posted a couple times that I should introduce myself. :) I started brewing ale last fall, after starting to make wine and cordials last spring. So far I've made a Trappist-style ale, an Imperial stout and most recently a honey-brown ale...

OK, I'll bite. Why isn't dishwasher clean enough? I'm careful to clean my bottles as soon as I get them, first rinsing them before whatever is in them can turn to dried gunk, then running them through the dishwasher so they'll be clean for storage. Any bottles that I find have stuff left in...

I've been using boiled, cooled water in my bubblers for a year now, and it has worked well. Bubblers sanitized first, of course.