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Some concentrates have preservatives. The Safcider yeast has been very reliable for me.

My life is somewhat empty….so I fill the void by drinking beer and looking stuff up…. The term "riffraff" originated in late Middle English around the mid-15th century, derived from the Old French phrase rif et raf, which meant "every particle, things of small value" or "one and all".

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Ashmead’s Kernal

Go for it and run a small, one or two gallon batch to try it.

Yeah, was able to get up on some pretty dramatic summits. I put your numbers into brewers friend, as yes as you stated above your efficiency is pretty low. If you get a cheap 16 qt pot from Walmart, you can use that as a side pot and do a dunk sparge and bring your numbers up a little.

I started with BIAB in a Cooler, then did fly sparge BIAB, got a keggle, hardly used it, now I downsized to 3 gallon in electric AIO, with a dunk sparge in side pot. The cooler gets used for bigger batches or high gravity brews. I do step mashes occasionally using the “rest calculator” on the...

Welcome HBT. I also started with cider, then got into wine, then beer and mead. Want to share your APA recipe? BTW I’m in the High Peaks area of the Adirondacks right now, love that beer bottle label you made.

In my (pretty old) mind, I’m thinking “old school” recipes would include anything before like 2010, which is when I started getting a little more serious about brewing.

You have a “way with words”. Looking forward to more of your commentary.

Like someone else said, not all varieties will do well in all locations. I have Brewers gold, which grows like crazy will little care, while my centennial and cascade barely grow at all.

Let’s give credit where it’s due, the quip is attributed to Groucho Marx. Here’s another one from him: “I drink to make other people more interesting.

The image in my mind of swinging a dead cat (like a baseball batter warming up) just won't quit. I'm going to crack open some HB barleywine I've been saving..... :mug:

What no one wants to say? All kinds of people have been saying it for years. But what does it matter? Everything is better when people stop worrying, relax, and have a homebrew.

I started down the road of re-visiting some old school recipes about 2 years ago. “Tasty” Mike Mcdole’s Double IPA and Janet’s Brown ale come to mind along with some more obscure selections like Da Yoopers house Pale ale and a clone of TenFidy imperial stout.

Glad to see brewing competitions haven’t faded away. Also, I must say that’s a brilliant marketing concept, using actual brewing competition scores to increase perceived value of beer ingredient kits.

Woke up early, was scrolling thru news articles, and noticed that distillery bankruptcies are a thing these days, with some big players like Jack Daniel’s cutting costs by outsourcing barrel production and reorganizing (likely firing) management teams. So switched to You tube over coffee and...

Water from wells can have dissolved minerals which may be ok, or have positive or negative effects on beer. I brewed for many years without doing any water adjustments , but in the last few years, I’ve been doing water adjustments using a very simple method. I watch videos on you tube by the...

Welcome to HBT! No need to make wild guesses about hop combinations. There are thousands of great recipes here on HBT where the brewer discusses how it came out. :mug:

So I’ve been making cider and wine for maybe 30 years, off and on , beer about 20. Your post is a little confusing to me since you have to grind the apples first, then put the resulting pomace in a press to get the juice out. There are lots of ways to do that, and lots of you tube videos...