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So it's pretty much done fermenting, any advantage to leaving it sit for another week or bottle it as planned this Sunday? I figured I'll mix in some apple juice concentrate to boost both flavor and sweetness when I rack to the bottling bucket and call it a day.

I've seen a few people on here mention that the quality of ingredients in some kits are suspect. I don't really want to make a mediocre beer on my first attempt and I already have all the equipment I'll need. Should I get a kit or just pick up the ingredients for a simple extract recipe...

Anybody? The gravity seemed a bit off, and I'm trying to think of ways to add more apple flavor without adding fermentable sugar to make it any more carbonated.

So I popped the lid to take gravity measurement tonight. Looks like cider anyway, still cloudy but nothing gross on the top. I tasted it and it's kinda dry and sparkling, definitely will need to backsweeten. Thing is, I don't really want it any more carbonated so I guess adding more...

Do it and post pics, I think more than a few here will admit they're interested in gutter beer. :rockin:

So it's been 8 days in the primary, how long should I keep the cider in the primary before racking to the carboy or should I just leave it in the primary for the remainder? Fermentation isn't nearly as active the last three days.

This is the first thing I've ever brewed so I have no normal methods yet. Since I only have a bucket and a glass carboy I'm assuming it'll be easier on me to just go get another bucket for bottling?

Yes it seems even in the beginner's section of this forum people are throwing around some pretty scientific shizz. I'm about 100 pages into "The Complete Joy of Home Brewing" and have learned a fair amount but there's still a lot to go. It's nice reading about complex all-grain recipes but I'm...

I only have a 6.5 gallon bucket and 5 gallon glass carboy, so would I have to transfer it to the secondary then back to the bucket for bottling, or could I toss the concentrate in the secondary and bottle it from there? It would seem easier with bottling from a bucket though.

Bottling.

I need more info on backsweetening.

Hello all, seems like a good community to shoot the shat about beer, drinking, cleaning up messes and sweet sweet inebriation. I picked up some equipment Saturday and yesterday started my first batch. I decided on cider both since fall is coming and I wanted to try something easy for my first...