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I'm making my first 5 gal batch of Ed's Apfelwein. I'm planning on racking off a little less than a gallon (space for additives) soon once the fermentation stops, campden and sorbating it, and adding, simmered in some undiluted apple cranberry concentrate and fresh squeezed OJ, 1/8 tsp of each...

What do you have it in that you were able to add a lb of honey and not notice? Are you using a 1 gal container? Also, how long ago did you start it? If it's fairly new and you have the space you can add water/juice to get it back down to a sensible SG. That, or let it brew out and see what...

I just started this Friday and I would like to give bottles away as gifts for Christmas. If I wait to bottle until the last minute (I'm planning on Sparkolloiding the first week of December), it should still continue to age in the bottles, right? I know bulk aging is the best, but I want to give...

Hooch? :drunk::drunk::drunk:

...I should confess that some of the hydrometer sample just happened to splash just right to get a small cup or so of cider in my mouth. I cannot say it was a wholly unpleasant experience.

I made my first batch of Ed's Apfelwein on Wednesday and it's been happily bubbling away. I took my first reading today (day 4) using my DIY Vacuum Sample Getter Device (a post for another time) and the SG has dropped from 1.062 to 1.020. I read an article on the HBT blog on secondaries that...

How can France, land of wine, not have yeasts for sale? Did you ask for a specific cider yeast? That's a more American thing so I would see them not having any, but Champagne yeasts? Named after the Champagne region of France?

I started a hard cider the other day and, while waiting for that to finish, got curious and decided to try a mead. I got the Joe's Quick Blueberry Mead recipe and modified it to fit the two gallon water cooler jug I got at a garage sale for $1 (used once, given a nice long C-Brite bath). I...

Thanks! I've been testing it a few times now. It seems I need to pinch off the lower tube for the first few pumps, but after that it goes nicely.

I'm just starting my first batch of hard cider today. I decided to practice siphoning before I try the real deal and found out I don't suck, or at least not well enough. I could not get the siphon to start, no matter what I tried. I also didn't want to be sucking up whatever I was siphoning...