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'm brewing a London Porter extract kit. Had 7# LME, 1-2# of DME plus the specialty grains 12oz. The fermentation stopped at 1.028 with an expected 1.010. I'm using dry Danstar British Ale yeast that I just dropped into the wort with a starter. I read an article yesterday about restarting...

Brewed up 3 gallons of peach cider that I'm breaking up into 3 secondaries. The first I plan on just back sweetening with Splenda. Second gallon I'm gonna make it cobbler style racked on cinnamon sticks, nutmeg and cloves Third I'm gonna make into a sweet tea cider. Now my question. The FG...

I just sampled my peach cider I'm making, it'd been in the fermentor for nearly a month. OG was 1.072 FG was .96 My math is telling me I'm looking at 14.7% ABV. Can that possibly be right? If so, I just basically made peach wine instead of cider huh?

I seem to be reading conflicting information about ciders and aerating. Some say you give a good shake, pitch then call it a day. Then I read elsewhere to give your cider a shake every few days. This is my few cider brew, but with my beer I know not to shake after pitching unless I want a wet...

I just went to a couple priming calculators and they all said I should use around 8ozs of priming sugar for a 5 gallon batch, I assume I'm going to lose about a half a gallon or so due to avoiding my happy yeast cake. Does that sound about right and I think AHS screwed me on about 4ozs of...

'm not really lazy. Well, I am, but I'm a truck driver out for a week or two at a time between days off. Does anyone have any ideas for long term extremely low maintenance swamp coolers or am I gonna have to bite the bullet and hunt down a cheap fridge on my day off?

I picked up a 3 gallon glass carboy and a 6.5 carboy bung from my LHBS. Every time I tried putting the bung in the carboy it would slide itself out. So with the airlock in I pretty much jammed that sucker in. It's currently fermenting 3 gallons of peach cider, but when the time comes I'm gonna...

I tossed together my first cider last night. 3 gallons of peach cider. I put in .5 cup of brown sugar (about 5oz) with the OG being 1.074 @ 68 degrees. I'm using US-04 yeast. I checked the air lock this morning and it wasn't clogged so much as the bubbles from the co2 were forcing peach into it...

I plan on making 2 half gallon batches of peach cider. I plan on using US-04 yeast and pasturized peach cider. It has some citric acid in it as a preservative, but in small amounts (as the producer told me). Best I can learn the citric acid shouldn't be too much of an issue for the yeast to...

Hey, I've been looking around for a spreadsheet template for a brew log for awhile now. All the links I've found so far are dead. I'm not quite able to fork over the extra cash for BeerSmith, so if anyone would happen to have a workable excel or openoffice spreadsheet template available I'd be...

Brewed my first batch of beer last night and when I finished up I took my OG. (pre-pitch) and unless I'm totally reading the hydrometer wrong I came up with 1.117 when the recipe range was supposed to be 1.043-1.046. The water temp was a bit warm 78 degrees when I took the reading. Do you...

Just finished brewing my first batch and I learned a few things in the process. Most namely, don't confuse Celsius with Fahrenheit (I about froze my poor yeast to death). Also learned that trying to cool the wort with running cold water sucks and to invest in either bags of ice or bite the...

In the middle of my first brew and something occurred to me. Should I have started seeping my grains while the water heats up to 150 or put the bag in when it hits 150?

Just a quick question. Been looking around trying to figure the standard diameter of a carboy bung so I know what OD blow off tubing I need to get. I'm assuming 3/8" but we all know what happens when we assume.

I live in the east TN area, about halfway between Kingsport and Knoxville. My wife said I needed a hobby. I think she may regret those words. I have a bad habit of going whole hog on projects. I make a living as a truck driver so I figured brewing would be my best bet. That and there's a...

I'm still waiting for my brew kit to arrive in the mail. While I'm doing that I'm looking at extract kits to keep me busy. I'm looking at Austin Homebrew and I have to ask the pros and cons of ordering the dry yeast packs vs. the yeast in the vials. I know the vials all you gotta do is get the...

I'm currently building a brew kit, and I'm thinking of going with Swing Top Bottles to ultimately save on money (caps) and time (capping). Has anyone had issues with them or love for them? Plus, anyone know of any affordable places to order them from?