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Very Nice......22 oz. dark ale bottles of course! I never use shorties if I have enough Biggens about.... Will be doing an "Emphere" clone next batch ..........thanks for all your input!

update 12/26. After further reading I did not follow through w/the back-sweetening plan and decided to just do a straight two week secondary. So to re-cap: 3 weeks primary then 2 weeks secondary. FG was 1.011. Bottled 12/23. Yield 484 oz. or about 3.8 gallons of Bombers. Conditioned with 1/4...

Update after 3 weeks in the primary........Moved the batch into a secondary Glass Vessel last night as the first fermentation had finally stopped. Back-sweetened with a gallon of fresh cider and a quart of fresh pear juice! Initial tastes (prior to adding anything) were extremely positive. No...

Ok in the words of the Great Papazian "I will wait, relax but can not have a homebrew :( " .....been out of the game for years :( but this is the start of a whole new regime ! Thanks for the reply !

My cider rages on at 14 days in the primary,,,,,pretty much still looks like pic 2 with a slower burp and less swirling going on in the jug. Thinking about racking to a secondary in the next few days and backsweeting w/ a fresh gallon of the same juice and a small quantity of fresh pear juice...

Well, I stand corrected! after what I thought was slowing down period after a nice takeoff is now (it seems) just getting rolling! day 3.5 pics......

ok thanks! I have been watching it closely for any change in fermentation. bubbles on the slow but just a hair ( about 1 every second plus ) also still have a nice swirling going on and holding at 67F........... any thoughts on the fermentation? I'm use to seeing high krausen but do cinders...

so after spending years brewing in the 80's and 90's and a little about 7/8 yrs ago I decided it was time to brew again! Have a buddy of mine get into ciders so I did a little research and dusted off the the brew pot and Carboy. I really was just interested in getting something rolling so...