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Hi! In the next two or three days I'm going to open a first bottle to evaluete it, I know it's too early, but I can't stand without doing it. Actually it cleared very well and I can read a newspaper trough it. Also in every bottle's bottom I can see a little sediment.

Today I started a 3 liters experimental batch of mead. I used local honey and as yeast I pitched a C. cerevisiae strain, called "narbonne", that was suggested me by a professional winemaker. OG is 1055, so I hope to reach a good abv. I'll keep you update.

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Ok! Thank for your kind advice! I'll take you updated!

Industrial wine making relies on stainless steel fermenters, so do not worry unless you know that the vessel was used in the past to store strong acid or so on ( this could have produced some toxic corrosion product).

Light is energy, and can trigger many reaction that change the moleculas in your fermenter, or in your bottle, inducing change in flavour, taste and colour, but the UV are the worst component of the light, so expecially be worned of them.

Well, my expercience is limited, very limited, but I brewed a Coopers Lager, extract only, it was my first one, and I got a very good beer. I think that the trick was a very accurate sanitzation job, temperature control and a long rest of the beer upon his cake. Surely the quality of the...

This is a true newbie question, so be merciful with me! I brewed a Coopers Wheat, and I added dry wheat malt extract, intending obtain a better head and body, but I forgot to add the white sugar at all! Note that the recipe requested it also if you were using dry malt extract. The...

ok, thanks for your tips! I'm also wondering if adding more easily fermentable sugar, as fructosio (maybe this is not the right way to write it), would improve the final abv. What is the best yeast strain?

Thank you very much for your kind reply! About the secondary I was wondering if I should carbonate inside it or just in the bottle... Also I've read that cider usually is "affected" by a secondary fermentation process, the so called malo-lactic fermentation, where maleic acid is fermented to...

Flavour are not always a quantity matter, so maybe this concentration is enough to the yeast to produce some bad tasting byproduct, but I don't really now, you should perform some trial, if you wanna know try to change only one parametr at time, or follow inspiration...

Hi everybody! This spring I made cider, with the following recipe, for a 23 liters batch: 5 kg of granny smith apple 1 kg of white sugar champagne yeast water 4 l of green apple juice, already pastorized. I cut the apples in small pieces, then I hand milled them, till I saw some juice...

This is a very good shape for a fermenter, also professional fermenter are conical shaped in the bottom. It make possible a better separation of the yeast cake from the green beer.

Hi! May I suggest you to consider if the tap water is sanitized with chloramine or something like. Is the fermentation bucket of food grade material?

Hi! I had a similar issue with a cider's batch, done with a champagne strain of yeast. First time I tried to drink it, I felt a truly yeasty taste, some weeks later the cider was "bread-like" tasting, now, almost four month later, is good, with apple flavour, good taste and good carbonation...

Hi John, I'm sorry but I can't figure out what do you mean with "neck of the woods"... but if are you asking me which kind of brewing kits are available here in Italy, this Mr. Malt is the best homebrewing supplier that I know in my country.

Hi! I brewed a batch of that good beer just before summer, it stayed in the primary and unique fermenter for almost two weeks, then I bottle conditioned it. Obviously befor brewing I did all the sanitation job. I started drinking it about one month later,maybe too early for a lager, and it...

Thank you! I believe that brewing is a deeply empirical matter, so everyone has to learn form other's experience!

Hi! I'm Giovanni, I am 24 year old and I am Italian. Soo I hope you'll be merciful for my ugly english. I've starded brewing and cider making some month ago and I found this site is a great source of tips and tricks! My first batch was cider, the last bottles of it I'm drinking in these...