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Started dry-hop on 9/13, and I think it is good now after 10 days. Question: how do I get the hops to settle out before bottling? Maybe rack it again and let it ride for a week?

Transferred mine to secondary last night. OG was 1.050, and I'm not sure why. Hit my temps and times spot on. Maybe some measuring device isn't calibrated right. Added 2# light DME to bump OG to 1.065. FG last night was 1.006. Unexpected over-attenuation. Fermented about 75 degrees for 16...

Still bulk-aging right now. On 9/9 I will begin the dry-hop and I'll bottle on 9/19 probably. The sample I pulled a week ago was fantastic though. Just enough saison spice.

Just made this yesterday. Everything seemed to go well: I hit all my temperatures, volumes, times. Got really low efficiency. Like 55% low. No clue what went wrong. Got OG=1.050 rather than the 1.065 I was looking for. Would adding 2 lbs of light DME concentrated with a quick boil/cool to...

Chamberlain's is just a small health/specialty food store like a Whole Foods. I just got that juice because it is high quality and it came in a glass gallon jug that I wanted for fermenting. Any quality unfiltered juice would be a fine substitute.

It's been 3 weeks. I racked to secondary last night. SG is 0.995. It fermented between 70-80 degrees in my closet. I know ciders are supposed to be fermented cooler, but the Belle Saison likes it warmer, which is good for me since I don't have much (any) control. The juice was Cider from...

Went ahead and made this last night after bottling the saison. 4 gallons apple cider, 1 gallon apple juice, and 5 cans FAJC into a big bucket. OG=1.054. Belle Saison should ferment this down to 1.000 and 7%. Right where I want it. Fermentation was so active this morning, I could feel the...

I've got a 2.5 gallon batch of this going right now. I only intended it to be 2 gallons, so I used 4 lbs mesquite honey, but my boil-off rate must have been low, so it ended up closer to 2.5 gallons. Should be interesting. I pitched over a month ago, on 4/16, and I still saw 1 airlock burp in...

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I have one of these 850mL water bottles sitting on my desk right now. The top is just right for a stopper and airlock. The grocery store is right next door, giving access to honey, fruits, juice, bread yeast, etc. It could be fun to have an airlock bubbling at work on a nano-brew. What...

This will be my next recipe. Add 4 gallons Sam's Club apple juice and 4 cans FAJC on top of the Belle Saison yeast cake left when I bottle my saison. Set this in the closet about 70-75 degrees. Once vigorous fermentation subsides, I'll top up to 5 gallons with juice and let it ride to FG...

I'm making the oaked acerglyn (maple mead) recipe from Meadist.com and it calls for one oak spiral in for 3 weeks. I don't have a spiral, but I do have cubes. What amount of cubes equals a spiral? I've never had or made anything oaked before, so I don't think "just taste and see when it's...

I've got an apfelwein that sat forgotton for 2 years without racking. Managed to keep the airlock full from evaporation, but that's it. Bottled it with apple juice concentrate, and it carbed up in about a month. Tastes really good now actually. I wouldn't worry about it.

I just measured the current SG at 1.008. That is to be expected. 17fl-oz of maple syrup is 1.48lb, and at 31 PPG in 3 gallons, that would put the SG before adding the maple syrup at around 0.995, which would be reasonable given how it tasted. I suspect there just isn't much sugar left to...

I'm attempting a clone of Crispin's The Saint cider. The juice mix in the recipe is just what I had on hand. 2 gallons Chamberlain's unfiltered apple juice 0.75 gallon Sam's Club apple juice 0.25 gallon Trader Joe's honeycrisp cider 3/8 tsp tannin, 3 tsp fermax, 1.5 tsp nutrient 25.5...

Just bottled this yesterday. Both gallons were stabilized and sweetened with 4oz honey and 6oz juice. They turned out really good, although the montrachet never really cleared like the EC1118. Both were 1.000 before sweetening. I'd say the EC1118 is better, but only marginally so. It will...

Well I've learned that spent grains are not a complete chicken food. My 5 girls love the spent grains, but I gave them too much of it last brew-day and ended up with some soft-shelled eggs.

Just brewed this yesterday as my 2nd AG batch. Messed up a bit and did my batch sparge with 3 gallons instead of 4, so I ended up with about 4 gallons in primary at OG=1.070. Any thoughts on how this might come out considering I used all the hops of a 5 gallon batch? Should I adjust the...

Just started two single-gallon batches of this on Sunday. Both used wildflower honey, one is being eaten by Montrachet, and the other EC-1118. Both are fermenting vigorously, but while the EC-1118 foamed up a lot, the Montrachet did not foam at all. Eager to see if there is any difference in...

Haha, yeah I learned that one! Got the old mead geyser the first time I added nutrients. They were all dissolved in a thieved sample after that.