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Another question: how strong do you make the PBW mixture?

Thank you all for your replies! Perhaps I should have specified in the photo that the strong white color is actually a towel underneath the carboy so the stains are the more grey-ish ones :) They are on the inside of the carboy, of that I'm sure of. I will try a longer PBW soak as my first...

I just received an old and pretty clean glass carboy from my grandfather who did some brewing some decades past. The only thing problematic is some white stain at the bottom which seems hard to remove. First I tried a mixture of rice, baking soda and water (read that one on another forum). That...

I'm getting ready to make my first batch of hard apple cider, and I'm thinking I'm going to make a still cider that is dry but with a hint of sweetness left (I guess that would be called semi-dry?). Do you have any recommendations for FG? I was thinking about 1.015 before I coldcrash it, or...

Thanks for your fast and great help everyone, this forum so reliable it's ridiculous :)

I was wondering, is there a minimum carboy fill-up limit for primary? Is it for example problem free to fill a carboy with primary only up to 1/3 of the full carboy? I know that I should fill it up to the neck for secondary, but I'm thinking that perhaps during primary so much carbon dioxide...

Another newbie question from a newcomer: if I buy a 11g package of Nottinghams but say only want to use half of it, is it possible to store it? If yes, how (glass container in fridge perhaps?) and for how long? Thanks a bunch! :mug:

Hi everyone! I'm new both to this forum and brewing but have been lurking around reading up on cider making for a week or so. I'm interested in doing a semi-sweet still cider really without adding anything other than yeast. I really like to try to keep it basic and clean, so I won't add anything...