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+5 = 2530 The airlock started bubbling within 4 hours. I can barely wait.

Nice! I'm definitely going to give this a try. At least for the ones I give away or set back to age. I've been doing the sharpie on the cap thing, too, and was looking for a better idea.

I'm drinking an 8 week old skeeter pee right now. It's good! I bought one of the degas-ers, but you don't have to. I think it helps, though, and I find myself using it for lots of things: stirring sugar into the skeeter pee later, mixing cider ingredients, aireating beer (instead of shaking...

Other than several people mentioning that the pumps should be oilless, are these sump pumps safe for use in this manner? I would LOVE to build one of these, but I am a little concerned about the sanitizing solution picking up some chemical, plastic by product, or something else that would then...

What kind of pump did you get? As I've been looking at building one of these, I've been worried about that and haven't found a pump that I could tell would work.

I used to do that all the time. Especially with less than ideal batches of homemade hard cider. Get some mulling spices (or make your own recipe with cinnamon sticks, cloves, nutmeg, etc) and warm up a bottle. I was pretty inconsistent with my cider batches (no recipes, no notes, just...

1245.5 + 5 = 1250.5

DerekJ ... I'm new to paying attention to the ABV and such. How did you calculate that? I know how to calc ABV based on the different in hydrometer readings, but not how to calculate starting gravity from the ingredients. Is there a webpage for that? Or just a forumla?

I can respond to the first part. I started five 1-gallon cider batches fermenting the day before a 5-gallon batch of Kölsch. The ciders bubbled along slow and steady for about a week. The Kölsch went crazy for 3 days and then tapered off to nothing before the ciders showed signs of slowing...

Mine are in bad need of racking into a secondary. I've been out of town. Hopefully on Sunday they'll go into the secondary. My plan was to drink them around mid-July ... 6 weeks after pitching. About the same time as my Kolsch should be done. I'm hoping to get my own little pipeline going soon.

I made cider and a Kolsch a couple of weekends ago. They both ran just like what you're talking about. The cider fermented slowly with the airlock bubbling ever second or so and ran for nearly a week before going still. The Kolsch bubbled several times a second for a few days and then went...

NICE! How many shopping baskets was that? The lady at Wal-Mart said the same thing to me and I only walked out with 5 gallons.

That does. Thanks!

In my local grocery store I ran across a bottle of RW Knudsen's pomegranate juice (pure juice, pasteurized but no sulfites and such). I thought that would be pretty good in a cyser. In the past my meads have always been with actual fruit and it was put in the primary. But I read (here at...

I'm looking for some 5 liter jugs for fermenting cider & mead. I found these (below) but can't find anything out about the company and don't want to give out my credit card to an unknown. Does anyone know where I can get some 5 liter bottles like this...

Cool. Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Hi all, I was heavily into brewing back in the mid-90s (beer, mead, cider, and about anything I could find that I thought would ferment ... which lead to some epically bad drinks). Recently I dusted off the brewing equipment and have started up again. Yesterday I drove past a local orchard...

If you get an OK from the group, I'd like to hear how this turns out.