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We built a pergola on our deck with the intention of growing an ivy or another vine for summer shade that could be cut back to allow sun n the winter. I just realized I could use hops plants to do this, which would be awesome! My dilemma is that the deck is a good 12ft off the ground, and the...

Having trouble with my ciders having too much carbonation... So I lower the PSI on the co2 regulator but then when I pour it is extremely slow. I like it at 5psi at 35 degrees. How can I keep the temp, keep the carbonation level, but get more flow out of the tap? I'm running about 5 feet of...

We're building a new house and our basement will include an 8x16 room for my cider making. It will be mostly below grade and spray foam insulated to help with temperature control, a floor drain and plumbing for a commercial sink. I know I want a window to show off the room while enjoying drinks...

I keg most of my cider but I try to do most of my batches in the fall or winter when it is easier to ferment it with cool temps. Since I have 4 kegs, I usually fill those and then make a couple more batches that I bottle and use when I want to take a 6 pack with me to the lake or a party. My...

So I have 15 gallons of cider in kegs currently, and another 10 gallons in primary buckets with no more kegs or space in the cooler. I do not have any carboys either. I like to make cider in the winter when it's colder in the house. Can I safely transfer off the yeast cake into a clean...

5 batches in a row now. I started an apfelwein in February and bottled it today. It was super tart, sour. I mixed a glass half and half with Apple juice and it tasted like sweet, super tart/sour/funky apple juice. Very little alcohol bite. that's how every 4 batches have gone using lanolin...

Like my experience with Cider last year... My first batch of Skeeter pee this spring get was awesome. Followed the recipe, cleared with super kleer finings for probably 2 weeks while I collected more clear bottles from the recycling center, then back sweetened, bottled, carbed and enjoyed. It...

My typical routine is to add juice or dissolved sugar into the bottling bucket, then rack onto this and gently stir. Immediately after it finishes racking I stir it one more time gently for a minute or so, taste test, then begin bottling. The last two batches I've made, the further I get in...

Tasted as good as it looks! Followed the skeeterpee recipe for 7 gallons. 5 gallons regular, 1 gallon green tea lemonade, and one gallon blueberry lemonade. Pictured is green tea lemonade in a corona bottle with a lemon wedge. Best drink I've made yet by far. (sorry uploaded from phone...

I searched the forum and Google but didn't find a thread about this. A lot of threads asking, but none with all the answers in one spot. Everyone has a preference and this may help people choose a sweetness level when brewing for themselves or for friends/family/gifts. So here it it. Where do...

So I got to thinking...my last batch of cider had a starting gravity of 1.054. It fermented to 0.994, giving it an abv of about 7.8%. The batch before that was 1.064 and finished at 1.000, so around 8.4% abv. Both were back sweetened with apple juice concentrate. Both took a while to age, but...

Just bottled some apple cherry cider. About 5.5%. I let a gallon ferment for 3 weeks, back sweetened with 6oz apple juice concentrate to take the FG from 1.000 to 1.010. Bottled it up and have it sitting in the closet on a shelf to bottle carb. My question is this...I bottled half in crown...

Does such a thing exist? A gauge similar to what you would use on a keg, but fixed to a reusable bottle cap. This way you can accurately monitor carbonation levels without popping bottles everyday or relying on the plastic bottle guess test. A more crude cap could actually be a disposable...

I started a cider on 12/25 at 1.064, fermented in the primary until 1/25 at which point it was at 1.000. Transferred to the bottling bucket with 3 cans of apple cider concentrate and bottled. I filled one empty plastic water bottle first, and labeled 2 other bottles as "test" bottles which I...

SG 1.060, currently in primary since 12/17. Clearing nicely but the test i pulled today for gravity was super funky tasting. Currently at 1.006. 1 gal applejuice, 4oz honey, 1 tsp of cinnamon extract and enough cane sugar to get SG to 1.060. Thought after reading SG that I'd rack and...

All hard lemonade recipes I have seen use lemonade concentrate and water. Has anyone used applejuice to add an apple favor and a little extra sugar content? Maybe just ferment the cider then back sweeten/carb with lemonade concentrate? Seems like it would be a refreshing summer drink aged a...