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Bottled my first [B]carbonated[B] cider, what temp do they need to be stored to carbonate, i have them in my basement right now, it's around 60 in there is that ok? Or is it too cool?

Took the better part of the day, but I juiced probably just over fifty pounds of apples and got around five and a half gallons of fresh cider, it's sitting in my primary now, instead of campden I pasteurized it in one gallon batches. the smaller apples kept binding up the juicer, but it was...

I was just given two wooden crates full of small tart apples today, now I have neither press or juicer, so what are my options to make them into cider, should I throw them into a food processor and then throw all the pulp into a fermenter and add water, or could I chop them up and top off with...

So here is a question, if you made some cider and decided to backsweeten with concentrate, if you used concentrate with preservatives, would you have to stabilize the cider first, also if you threw in one can of concentrate with preservatives and some bottling sugar would only the sugar ferment...

I have now gathered around thirty pounds of blackberries for my wine, now the only question is, what type of yeast to use. I have access to pretty much most of the Lalvin strains at my lhbs, does anyone have a preference?

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has used corona bottles for bottling their home brew cider, will the clear glass affect it, and can you re cap a corona bottle. I've only used swing tops for home brew cause I'm a newbie, but my swing tops are all one liter and I want to bottle my next cider...

Haven't made this yet, just waiting for my nottingham to come in, it's on back order. 4 gallons of Walmart brand apple juice 1 gallon of cran/raspberry cocktail ( no preservatives ) 2 lt of raspberry cocktail 5 bags of Canadian breakfast tea 5 bags of raspberry zinger tea One pound of sugar...

I have no idea how it fit into the little holes on the airlock lid, but it did, what is the chance it will affect the mead, or should I be ok?

I am wondering what would happen if you were to boil down a gallon of unfiltered apple cider into like an apple molasses, and then top off with more cider and pitch some yeast, kind of like an apple cider bochet sans honey? I was reading the mead forums and someone posted awesome pictures of his...

Hey there, I'm just preparing to make a test batch of apple cider, I couldn't get any Nottingham yeast liked wanted in my town, the only beer yeast I could get was coopers brewers yeast, my question is has anyone used this yeast in an apple cider, and if so how did it turn out. I was planning on...

Hello, I'm new to wine making of any sort, but my wife and I love mead, so I figured what a great place to start! After watching some great YouTube vids, I decided to make a JAOM, this turned into 2 cause I happened to have enough honey, so I made one JAOM by the book but with EC-1118, and a...