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Yup, one of the downsides to S04 is the light fluffy lees that's easily disturbed and hard to rack off. Nottingham is much better for a small batch. It makes a tight compact lees.

Adding sugar simply increases the alcohol content. With or without that, most yeasts will take cider to a completely dry state. Non fermentable sugars like Stevia or Xylitol can be added after ferment at bottling time, along with a small amount of sugar for carbonation. Do you have a hydrometer...

Sweetness and carbonation are mutually exclusive. If you bottle carbonate, the yeast will consume all the sugar. Using non fermentable sugar as a sweetener can overcome that limitation. Or, checkout the bottle pasteurization sticky thread on this forum. If you can get a keg it would open up a...

^^^ Good call on the bag. Strain the fruit pulp out and put it in a cheesecloth bag. Start with maybe 1/2 gallon of honey/water at about 1.100 SG and when it's fermenting underway add the fruit bag and all.

And Florida Orange Blossom is different than California Orange Blossom. Who'da thought?

No water? 1.140 is very high, even for K1-V

Do it outdoors. And be prepared for every bee in 3 miles to pay you a visit. They can smell it cooking.

Added some Fermaid-K to my cyser. The yeasties must like it, the bucket is bloopin' up a storm!

I ordered two 5 lb jars and when I got to checkout the shipping cost came up as $69. Ouch. I added a WTF note and placed the order. They got back to me and refunded $20. When I got the package, I could see why it cost so much. Glass jars, not plastic, packaged really well... And the honey is...

You can ship booze UPS or FedEx but you need to be a licensed distributor. For us, we have to fib about the contents. I get raised eyebrows from UPS when I ship "bottled water" to brew comps with an address like "Happy Holidays Homebrew Competition" lol.

You don't. It's illegal. You can use UPS or FedEx but you have to lie about what's inside. I tell 'em it's vinegar or bottled water.

Honey

Started a 4 gallon batch of cyser. Apple Blossom honey and grocery store frozen concentrate. 1.045 OG for 2 gallons of apple juice. Honey and water to 4 gallons, with total OG at 1.090. I chose White Labs WLP715. It's still in the 60's in my basement and this yeast wants 70-75, so I only need...

91.5 + 4 gallons Apple Blossom cyser = 95.5

Does a Purepitch pouch have a packet inside that needs to be broken like WYeast smack packs, or do you just have to massage it a bit before pitching?

While listening to George Thorogood?

I give them away to friends and family. And drink them with dinner.

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Thank you. That's exactly what I'm looking for.

I had a standard white 2-hole #6-1/2 stopper that mysteriously disappeared from my brew room. All I'm seeing online is black ones sold by lab supplies outfits. Is this a rare duck? I need a new one.