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I really am not a big cider fan, but I do keep Apfelwien in my rotation, last night I tried a McKenzie Black Cherry Hard cider and thought it was pretty good. So would I just have to substitute some heavy black cherry syrup (assuming I can find some) for some of the apple juice? I currently...

I have not yet made the plunge to liquid yeast, still going with dry and been happy with it, maybe one day I will get the equipment and try liquid as there seems to be more variety. That being said, I want to make a Dragon Stout clone and the recipe calls for: Wyeast 2112 - If you had to use...

So I finally picked up a freezer to use as a fermenter, no more hoping the ambient air temp is good. So I figured I would set it up with a dual controller and I know some have been using lizard tape for a heat source, is there a specific amount to use per cubic foot of freezer space or wall...

I had my annual crawfish boil last night, on draft was an Amber, Blonde, and Apfel Wien, I used the recipe I found on here and didn't make any changes, after 3 months, I kegged it and Carbd it. It turned out great and some even commented that Angry Orchard was garbage after drinking this hard...

So I have two pinlock kegs in a keezer and they work great, I ordered a third one online and when I connected it, there didn't seem to be a good seal on the air side, the connection seemed to move around and caused leaks. I thought maybe the posts were bad and I need to change it, then I looked...

So I wanted to get a freezer to use a fermenter as I had some issues this past summer with the beer fermenting at too high a temperature in the house this past summer (live in Texas), but the chest is going to have to be in the garage, so if I put a Johnson control on it like I did my keezer, I...

Started up brewing again a few months back, been using an old fermentor that I used years ago when I used to brew, really don't see the bubbles in the airlock, but can see the yeast build up ring and leave when beer is done. First 8 batches were great, last two taste like alcohol and hard to...

So I am figuring out that I have to have more patience with my beer, my current set up is one fermenter and 2 carboys; thinking of changing that to 2 fermenters and either 3 to 4 carboys, the space I have is only wide enough for three total, so thinking of getting a table/shelf so I can have 6...

So the local place I have been buying kits from lately has pretty much the same instructions, ferment up to 7 days, secondary 1-2 weeks. I have been pretty much following that (the 1 week secondary) and then kegging and the beer has been great. I recently bought a Belgium kit (up to 10.5%) and...

I have been taking mine from boil and putting it in an ice bath and at the same time dropping in some ice packages (the reusable ones we used to use for transporting baby milk/etc). Just finished a batch of Belgium something and after I took the ice packages out I noticed one of them has a hole...

I am making a Belgium beer that requires 2 packages of yeast, the guy at the store said I better use a blow off tube, seems easy enough, except I always use vodka in my airlocks, how much liquid do I need in a bucket for this to work, and I am sure I don't want to waste that much vodka (even...

So, my freezer showed up and since you guys said I should keep my CO2 bottle up and not sideways the only way I am going to be able to put three kegs in there is to have the CO2 outside the freezer (my guesstimate measurements were WAY off on what would fit), I don't want to do a collar and I...

So I brewed for a few years and then quit because I got tired of the bottles, went to a friend of a friends the other day and he had the freezer/keg set up, so I am back in business. I bought the pin lock set up; freezer should be here this weekend; and an Amber Ale is in the fermenter...