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I planned on bottling all mine this weekend. I'll definitely do this one last and the other 2 first. It doesn't look too bad to me but then again this is my first batch and you guys are the pros. Definitely dry, I got my fg a week or so ago. Just wanted to age them a bit more but fermentation...

Sorry about the awful quality of the picture too, it's really the best I can get as this is stored in a little cubby in my apt

Should I dump it or rack around it? It's only just forming and looks like mold in the secondary. I have 2 full gallons and calculated wrong so I wound up with this 3/4 gallon here with way too much head space. Figured I'd take my chance and this is week 3. I'd of course rather not dump it, I...

Awesome, I prefer brown to table thanks for the advise guys

I made a similar one with a pill bottle instead, hot glue the lid upside down on it and it latches perfectly onto the air locks. That being said, not a hint of scent came through. Took the lid off to rack on sunday and the rubber gasket around the ring stunk of the sulfur. Verdict: The carbon...

Maybe a dumb question, but has anyone substituted dextrose for table sugar when making this? I understand the changes in flavor but I don't have a HB store close and wouldn't mind saving a few bucks if table sugar would substitute with little to no bad effects. Prices on dextrose are...

Don't get me wrong it tastes pretty good and I know that the taste does improve with aging. Racked after 2 weeks in primary. Planing on leaving it in the secondary for at least 3 weeks, maybe longer since I have 3 gallons split up into 3 1 gallon carboys. However the taste was just a bit...

It's actually why I started the thread. When I pull them out the jagged edges you see there are actually smooth. I think sanitation on them will be fine as the rubber is still very smooth and not porous looking

Haha good, it's in there really tightly, I don't see a single space of air getting through. This just seemed so unorthodox that I had to ask. I have to rack this weekend. Bubbles have basically stopped and my cider is ready to rack and I don't want it sitting on sleeping yeast for too long...

I ordered the small ones and they were a hair too big. Nothing I could get in and trust my i was trying my best. Now what I did (and I love to just get the peace of mind from you experts) was take an xacto and taper it off a little more as I noticed the rubber was pretty thick. Do I just buy...

How did that Trader Joe's turn out? I was going to use that but I have a local farm that had fresh pressed. I bought the Trader Joe's spiced just to drink regular yesterday and was incredibly disappointed. That is not to say it wouldn't make a good hard cider. The spices just tasted wayyyy...

Ah, sorry, double post

Awesome, thanks guys. I'll definitely take the dawn/dish detergent route. I've used it for years on grease stains on clothes, shocking how great it works on clothes. Worst case scenario is that if I can't get it out completely I recycle the jug and start a new one. Just needed that peace of mind...

My dad had some left over Gallon jugs of Sangria he made (Carlos Rossi Jugs). That cleaned out well and I have oxyclean sitting in it for 8 hours now. That one is fine, not entirely worried about that. The other one housed our Vegetable oil for our deep frier. I seem confident that with some...

So basically should I rack to the bottling bucket when I can see fermentation done, let settle and bottle?

Racking to increase clarity. At least that is what my directions have advised. I figure my girlfriend will be more keen to try and enjoy this experiment in food science if it doesn't look like a mess haha, either way if she hates it just means more for me.

I live in Central NJ, Union County and the closest place I have is Corrados which is 45 minutes away. It would drive me nuts to drive there for just yeast so I'm looking at online vendors. All of my supplies came from Amazon and I managed to find the ones that were the best prices. However...

Hi me again with the n00b question. The kit I bought came with a bottling bucket with a spigot. Identical to the one I have fermenting, just with a spigot in the bottom. My questions are should I worry about leaving it in there when I move to the secondary about the spigot? Can I bottle...

Just on my first batch debating on doing this, I went with red star champagne yeast for the current batch, would that work with this recipe or should I just wait till my carboy is free and start a batch with the Nottingham?

Hey Guys, I just started my first cider/brew ever. Came home from work to happily discover that my airlock was bubbling. The disappointed to notice a small hairline crack down the side. The vodka looks to be leaking only slightly, nothing more than a miniscule drop. I applied some scotch...