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I've never done secondary, the only time I should've was with my blueberry hefeweizen since I added fruit. Yea these forums are very active, I have grown to love and depend on all the experienced brewers that use it. There have been several times where I was already brewing and got immediate...

Try 10 lbs of 2 row @ 152 for 60 mins 1 oz cascade @ 60 .5 oz cascade @ 30 .5 oz cascade dryhop I made a 2.5 gallon batch of this because I had an extra 5 lbs of 2 row and an extra oz of hops. I just picked up some safbrew because it was very cheap but the beer turned out GREAT and everyone who...

1(fresh cider and cranberry concentrate)+2(apple juice concentrate honey and brown sugar) +.5(aj concentrate and brown sugar) + 21,448 = 21,451.5 Haven't gotten to bottle or try any yet, these are my first batches!

Took a hydrometer reading, got 1.07 and added a tsp of yeast nutrient, its a nice deep reddish pink color. Couldn't resist adding a few spoonfulls of brown sugar also. Looking forward to trying it! (As well as my other apfelweins, none are done yet).

Just got two half gallons of 100% apple cider for 1.50 each (managers special!) and a can of frozen cranberry juice cocktail. Will this be sufficient for a gallon of apfelwein with my champagne yeast? Any estimates on the final abv?

What would using a champagne yeast do to this recipe? I have the red star yeast in the blue packet.

Just drank one, brewed it early august bottled a week ago. Its my first batch and one week in bottles made it soooomuch better than when I bottled it. I hope at least one of these fewbottles makes it to next august! Edit: I made it in early september, which is why I was so surprised.

I made a smash brew with 2 row and cascade, it was awesome! I too am waiting on my first batch of apfelwein.... and second one =)

Last night I made up two 2 liters of apfelwein, I just bottled a gallon of joes ancient orange mead. Tomorrow I will be bottling 5 gallons of a cream ale, and Saturday I will be brewing either carabou slobber or an oatmeal stout! Its a good week. =D

I just made two 2-liters more of it with 2 cans of applejuice concentrate, a quarter cup of brown sugar, and a pinch of yeast energizer in each one. I used a half teaspoon of the blue packet of red star champagne yeast in each also, gave one to a friend for his birthday so I really hope they...

Does that mean I could make a half batch with 8 or 9 of the concentrates instead of 6 and honey n sugar?

Well I accidentally brought the volume up to 2.5 gal w watr I'm worried the gravity.

I used only concentrate to save some dough, all the juice @ my store is from concentrate anyways so no reason to pay more than twice as much for them to add water for me. I used 6 cans in a 2.4 gal batch with 2/3 cups brown sugar n 12 oz honey. Gravity might b a bit low but I'm not sure its my...

Day 3 on my first apfelwein. Was worried about knowing when it'd start, judging by the smell in my room its workikng! I used red star(the blue packet) and a pinch of yeast energizer

Used 6 cans of of the concentrate, 2/3 cup brown sugar, 12 oz honey. Excited about my first apfelwein! Should I expect to see any action in the fermentor like beer?

Just made my first batch of apfelwein! 6 cans of frozen applejuice concentrate, 2/3 cups of brown sugar, and 12 oz honey. Made about 2.5 gallons, hopefully I didn't water it down too much I think the recipe was for 2gallons. I'm planning on carbonating it all, do I use the same amount of sugar...

I will be using red star yeast, the blue packet and will be fermenting in a mr beer container (about 2.25 gal). I like dry ciders and I want something to put my friends and I on our asses while still tasting decent. Looking at some other recipes I'm thinking I will use 5 or 6 cans of the...

A little haze never hurt anything! I've never been worried about clarity, I use a tsp of irish moss since some recipies call for it but I don't think clarity means anything besides that its clear.

I just bottle prime, despite what some people believe it has provided consistent results. I add sugar to all the bottles before I start filling any with beer. Also I have had the problem that Ravvy describes, with my most recent beer. I was freaking out because the first two times I opened one...

Thank you for your response! I will give this a shot, I will probably scale it down to 2.5 gallons because of my setup or lack of one and the amount of grains it takes. I will look around about the hops and order the supplies in the next couple weeks. Ill update this when I get brewing!