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awesome thank you! I'm in FL so the temp is pretty high. inside the house its around 73-75

So i recently pitched some Nottingham into a bucket of cider (OG 1.070), and i was a little concerned when the next day i didn't see any activity in the air lock, and again the next, and the next. it became apparent that i had a sealing issue with my bucket and when i opened the top i did indeed...

thank you, i had already read through that before posting. i guess what i was really asking is if using campden/sorbate was an absolute MUST, or if i could get away with not using either.

So im in the process of making an apple cider and im looking to keg it to get a sweet sparkly kind of goodness. I will sweeten it with juice concentrate when its kegged but since im new to the keg game, i dont know how to go about it properly. do i need to pasteurize it or add anything to it to...

You guys are amazing, thank you!

Yeah thats the style i have. Are you using the freezer or the frige to crash?

Yeah the siphoning bit i already planned on being careful with. Would you recommend gelatin for fining? What about a good temp for crashing? I only have access to a refrigerator to do that with so i think im a bit limited on how low it will go...havent tested to low end yet.

so its about that time of year again, and for the first time since my first adventure in home-brewing i decided to do a pumpkin ale. it smells great and looks (a bit darker than expected) awesome. My main worry though is settlement. i remember my first pumpkin ale was heavy on settlement and im...

Just out of curiosity, can i put co2 in a nitro bottle? The only difference i see is preassure related. I know i will eventually want to run a nitro setup in the next year, so if i can get the bottle and regulator but run co2 out of it i may go that rout to save a few bucks and just fill with...

Hell yeah! I forgot about that guy. I use to watch him when i was getting started. Admittedly i havent watched him in a while and definitely didnt watch his kegging stuff cause i wasnt interested in it at the time. Thanks for the heads up. Ill be checking that out this evening

Thank you, it seems like theres more info out there on CO2 so i will most likely go that rout... its a bit cheaper anyway :mug:

That is exactly what i was looking for, thank you!

Hey guys. I have gotten to a point where im looking to get my first keg and i was wondering if you have any good resources on the process i can check out. I am also wondering if i should get a co2 or nitro set up. I usually do stouts and darker ales and i hear there decent on nitro. Anything i...

I actually just bottled my mead. Nearly one month to the day. The thing that amazed me was the lack of off flavors. I tasted it and the only thing that's not good about it is how hot it is, but that should settle down with age I hope. At about the three week mark I noticed an orange had settled...

How did this come out? I also used the sweet mead yeast but I used a little bit more honey. Hoping it doesn't get TOO sweet. How long did you leave it in primary? The original post says to leave it in primary for two months but I'm a little nervous to do that with all the sediment in there.

yeah thats probably not going to happen for me unfortunately. ill cross my fingers and hope everything comes out ok.

thank you for this. I use generic HDPE buckets as my fermenter and i have had people gasp and try to tell me there are all kinds of chemicals in there that will kill me. I always figured the same thing you mention here. if they take something out or add something to it, its not HDPE anymore. the...

yeah that's what i was afraid of but i haven't really had the means to get a large carboy. i have a 1g glass one ill be racking some mead into in a few weeks but that doesn't really help with the other few gallons. what would you recommend for this situation?

i just took a reading on it, i went from about 1.06 to 1.01. coming out about 6.5% right now. maybe a tad more cause i got some lees in there. the taste is almost perfect as far as dryness. could use minimal sweetening and just a touch more apply goodness. but other than that its good. i do...

My cider is burping every few minuets, I haven't taken a FG yet but I'm looking to get a slightly sweeter drink. I only have plastic buckets to age In so was wondering. if I stop the fermentation where I want it and add a clarifier, I could bottle in a couple days and just bottle age it right...