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Just went through your build, fricking awesome job and I'm jealous as I have to lug my stuff out of the basement to brew on the pool deck but I do have a floating beer pong table for my pool but I digress. We have neighbors behind us that have a raised patio and seem to look down in our pool...

Going to score some of that Honeycrisp cider at Whole Foods to make my second batch. I'll use 1 1/2 pounds of organic turbinado sugar and a pound of organic honey, a packet of Nottingham and wait longer for the bottling this time. First batch hit .990 in about 10 days before bottling, I let it...

Cider newb here and here's my story, needed a batch of cider for my daughters graduation in May so that gives be about two months and I've done this already Five gallon carboy 4.75 gallons of organic Apple Juice SG of 1.045 1 1/2 lbs organic cane sugar dissolved in heated cider and mixed 1...

I took another measurement of the plain juice and got a 1.045 on the refractometer and 1.048 on the hydrometer, so you're right I'm about to get some strong cider Thanks for your input but I'm going to have to figure out the Brix tool for fermented readings

OK I believe you're correct as I took a reading last night of a different product and the (cheap) refractometer measured 1.032 and the hydrometer read 1.011. Now I'm not sure what I'll have but I'm betting it'll be stronger than expected

I expected a higher OG as well but a 6-7% end product will be fine The juice by itself had a 1.040 using an inexpensive refractometer The yeasties are going crazy, no krausen layer just a constant supply of tiny bubbles, room smells wonderful so I'm quite encouraged. My daughter is the cider...

K Cider pros here's what I've projected for my first Cider I have five gallons of organic apple juice, no preservatives just ascorbic acid I have 1.5 lbs of organic turbinado raw cane sugar One pound of organic honey One pack of dry Nottingham Yeast nutrients I heated some of juice to mix in...

OK Cider pros here's what I've projected for my first Cider I have five gallons of organic apple juice, no preservatives just ascorbic acid I have 1.5 lbs of organic turbinado raw cane sugar One pound of organic honey One pack of dry Nottingham Yeast nutrients I will heat up one gallon...

I'll add some nutrients, starter used or can I pitch the pack of Lavin dry? I've never used dry Any cider work or apple juice work? Thanks for helping

Going for my first cider to celebrate my daughters graduation 5 Gallons of Cider 2 pounds cane sugar Yeasties Any boil? A dry 7% sounds perfect How long in the carboy and I'm assuming after bottling with a 5 oz primer I would have to pasteurize to give it a final stop

Actually tried to get them out and couldn't as I only used three small bags with 5oz of hops. Seconday is now sitting in a large bucket of ice and plan on bottling tomorrow night I'll let you'll know how it turns out as it still smells awesome

Actually tried to get them out and couldn't as I only used three small bags with 5oz of hops. Seconday is now sitting in a large bucket of ice and plan on bottling tomorrow night I'll let you'll know how it turns out as it still smells awesome

Hello all, I just dry hopped my Pliny clone with weighted down hop bags that still floated, duh!, not enough weight so my question is Should I remove the hop bags before cold crashing or just leave them in? Out of the boil kettle there was a ton of trub and a nice looking yeast cake after the...

Congrats it's a great feeling My name is Wolf and I'm an addict. That said, my moment came on my third brew last month, it was a Blue Moon clone from Austin Brewing that I made for my son who was graduating from college Holy crap it was spot on and everyone loves it, I don't as I cant stand...

OK last Saturday night I brewed MoreBeer's extract Blind Pig IPA. 1 1/2lbs steeping grains in 1 1/2 gal water, added that to 5 gallons of heated water and then 1lb DME and 2llbs LME at 60 min. Followed hop schedule and added Wirlfloc and remaining 7lbs LME at 10 min. Then I used imersion chiller...

They blew it, suicide pass, head down and gets a shoulder planted deep in his chest. He got cut when he cracked the ice, don't want anyone hurt but come on.

Thanks all, between the unionDR and Yooper I've going this route. Five gallons in the kettle to start warming while I steep 1 1/2lbs of grains in 1 1/2 gallons on the stove, strain this into the kettle with a little rinse of the kettle water. I'll add the full pound of DME and a couple of lbs...

Only have 1lb of dry and 9lbs of LME, I also have 1 1/2lbs of specialty grains that I'll steep in maybe a gallon of water as described and add it to the kettle. I plan on a full boil of about 6.5 gallons to start with including the steeped grain (is that a mini mash?) and save all the LME till...

So after steeping your specialty grains, you boil just that a little (half?) DME with the hop schedule and add all the rest of the DME and all the LME at flameout? Do you let the wort sit for 5-10 minutes before chilling or stir in and go. BTW, big R. Crumb fan here

I like to use the garage, door closed when cold out but then the cigar smell gets in the house which the bride doesn't like. When it's nice out then the neighbors know what's going on :mug: As BlackDogBrew states above, you have to have a blue flame. I have to adjust both the regulator and...