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The blueberries are from the freezer aisle. Lol!

In other words, should I use the extract that can be bought at an online retailer of home brewing goods or did you guys extract/concentrate your own blueberries?

Do you use homemade extract or can I buy it somewhere? I've checked online and it looks like if have to boil the blueberries to make an extract.

Thanks guys. I'm using frozen blueberries from the grocery store. So I'll lightly mash them before adding them to secondary. I'm making a three gallon batch of cider and after primary it will be split. One gallon is going to a apple jack experiment and the reamaining two will be blueberry...

I'm considering a blueberry cider but not sure of the best way to add the berries to secondary? Should I boil them first? Should I crush, puree or leave whole? I don't think I can fit them in a nylon bag through the carboy neck? Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks for your help PorterPounder.

Hello everyone. I've made a few batches of hard cider before but the last couple have left me with this weird scratchy throat/tongue/mouth very shortly after drinking it. It's been aging for about a year and I noticed a smell of dirty socks at bottling. What do you guys think? I'm not too keen...

So how did it turn out? I was considering making a hefwiezen too.

Cool! Thank you!

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Sounds easy enough (famous last words)! One more question and I'm sure this is a dumb question. How do you put the spice in? Does it get grated or should I just throw a couple sticks into the bottom of the bucket before bottling?

So to make the blueberry apple cider I should just add the blueberry juice at bottling right?

Well if nothing else it's a good first learning experience. Worst case scenario i wasted a couple gallons of juice. Thanks for the advice Yooper!

Yeah I bottled. I thought the yeasties were all finished? I bottled to PET though. I'll keep an eye on them. If they're feeling carbonated i.e. hard, I'll have to figure something else out!

Thanks for the help Randzor. I took a taste and with the premier cuvee wine yeast I used it is quite dry! Not a big deal though. I went ahead and bottled without any added tannins. It has quite a bite to it which I assume will mellow out with age. The hydrometer was right around 1.001 if I read...

I lived in Carol Stream for about year during a short time at Devry. Thanks for the welcome everyone! Happy brewing!

Ok guys can I get your advice again?I haven't had any action in the airlock for about five days now. Today is day 10 I believe. No signs of mold or any other undesireables. My question is should I rack to secondary? Later today I will take a hydrometer reading. Also I thought about adding a cup...