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I was at an orchard this weekend, and in among the regular trees was a single crabapple tree absolutely bursting with ripe red fruit. I tasted one, and it was sour and astringent but tasty. They sold apples by the bag, and those crabapples filled the gaps between the larger ones nicely. I...

Not once, but twice, on two different batches of cranberry melomel/cyser (different recipes, one adds the fruit in primary, the other has more apple juice and adds the cranberries in secondary). Anyway, without having the original gravity, am I going to have trouble figuring out when this is...

I am poised to start my second batch of mead ever. My first was a traditional mead (no fruit, spices) and turned out pretty well, but I think I want to try something drier, with fruit. After perusing many recipes and talking to some more experienced meadsters locally, here is my tentative...

Wow, so a week after I racked two one-gallon batches of cider (both pasteurized, unfiltered, one with WLP300 Hefeweizen yeast, the other with Danstar Nottingham dry ale yeast) both have a thick layer of sediment -- an inch or so in each. The Nottingham batch may be clearing -- but it's not clear...

So my philosophy in brewing is to each his (or her!) own, and I recognize fine brews can be made in many, many ways. But personally, I like tradition, and have strong if sometimes irrational feelings about doing it "right," which usually has some connection to my perception of "traditional"...

So I made my first batch of cider, still clearing in secondary, with a wine yeast at the recommendation of the LHBS. But everything I've read suggests waiting a year for ciders made with wine yeast. Same goes for the undoubtedly magnificent Ed Wort Apfelwein, which I fully intend to try making...

Hi -- I'm new here, but impressed by the depth of the cider wisdom I've seen so far. I sent some of this to AHA's tech-talk email list before exploring homebrewtalk.com, so apologies if anyone's getting it twice. I've brewed beer and one batch of mead, but never cider. On a whim I decided to...