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Super clear cider can be achieved in a couple of different ways... commercially, it is filtered. On the home-scale, I have good luck with time and multiple rackings. Use pectinase if you are starting with cider/unfiltered must. Then allow enough time after primary fermentation is complete for...

Just buy Everclear 190 (if you can in your state) or food grade ethanol? That seems like the easiest way to get 95 % ethanol for the extraction of hallucinogens, no?

I don't stir the mash. For a 10 lb grain bill, my cooler at max volume (5 gal) will yield about 1.33 qt/lb. I leave it be for 60 to 75 minutes prior to draining the mashtun. Then I do a single batch sparge (3.5 gal) with vigorous stirring at the start. Typically right around 80 % efficiency...

What makes a good cider? Mostly, the blend of apples used in the must (juice). I have found that adding even just a cup of crab apple juice to a 2 gallon batch of store bought cider can do a lot for the finished cider. The crab apples primarily add tannins, so you could add some tannins via...

I'd be more suspicious of the crush or sparge technique before I chased mash thickness.

Perhaps Historical Beer - "The entrant must either specify a style with a BJCP-supplied description from the list below, or specify a different historical beer style that is not described elsewhere in these guidelines. In the case of a style that has changed substantially over the years (such as...

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https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall.42841/ This has to be one of the most popular recipes on this site. Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde.

So, it may not look it, but aluminum cans are actually lined with a thin polymer coating. So the beer doesn't actually come into contact with the metal. If you're using canning jars, then aren't the lids polymer lined as well? I know the ones I use typically are. People can much more...

Hops are also very batch dependent. I think my last batch was a little too "catty" for my preference. Most of the Nelson that I have used have been very much on the white wine side of things. In fact, the Nelson saison is one of my beers that my wine-loving family members tend to like best.

I use Nelson pretty regularly. A little can go a long way. I generally use a bittering charge, followed by additions at 15 minutes and 5 minutes. Total IBU will be about 25 to 30. Then I'll dry hop with 1 oz (4 - 5 gal batch). Honestly, with my last batch, I found the Nelson dry hop to be...

@HB_ATL73, Did you speak with the LHBS about their pricing? They're going to charge what the market will bear, and letting them know that you are unhappy is one way of letting them know that you won't bear it.

EKG is one of my all around favorites for Saisons and English style.

I don't think Barron's spun it in any certain way. Former hotel executive is accurate. The Barron's story also didn't have a lot of the other details. This isn't a small brewery buying Ballast Point, this is a six-person investor group, which includes the chairman of The Wine Group out of CA...

Because he's an MBA from the London Business School and Founder of Boomerang Hotels, which he sold (80+ properties in US and China). It's not like every "craft brewery" is run by a former homebrewer who is scraping pennies together to make a go of a nanobrewery.

Microbes need a source of carbon to grow, and they don't need much. So, any residual sugars or other organic molecules can support growth. Just look at fungal/bacterial growth in a wet environment like a shower or bathtub.

Isn't that like pumping the brakes while also hitting the gas? Why are you using the 1 lb Special B? That's an awful lot of Special B if you don't like sweet beers.

Your pressure is dropping for two reasons: 1) The Ideal Gas Law (PV=nRT) and 2) Henry's Law (Solubility of [most] in a water increase as temperature decrease). So, you less thermal energy because of the reduction in temperature, which results in less pressure; and, you have less molecules of...

I will use about 1/4 to 1/2 oz per gallon. I stick with the more traditional hops like Saaz or EKG. And, only for about 3 to 5 days.

https://www.newbelgium.com/a-letter-from-kim/ "More than 300 employees are receiving over $100,000 of retirement money with some receiving significantly greater amounts. Over the life of our ESOP, including this transaction, the total amount paid to current and former employees will be nearly...