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I experimented with horehound candies a few months ago. They contained roughly the same amount of sugar as cooper's carbonation tabs I had from a Mr. Beer kit so I thought, why not? No one else seemed to be able to tell the difference between the two, but I could. It gave me just a hint of...

Hey folks, just wondering if anyone has tried bottle priming with something like this...? Will the will the soy lecithin mess with my cider?

I tired a quarter ounce of Falconers Flight in a 1 gal back last month and let it sit for 7 days. It was stellar, all of my tasters were in love with that batch.

That's what I've got going here ☺ I took it out of primary last week so I could use the fermenter (and us 04 cake) for a passion fruit/lychee cider. Fermentation kicked back off when a crazy low pressure system rolled through. Do you think it was just a coincidence?

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So here is the result of my first batch. I split it in half a week ago since the gravity was holding steady @ 1.001. The first half I racked with some Falconers Flight hops for 7 days and the 2nd half just left alone. This evening I bottled and this was the leftovers in the bottling bucket...

I must have made a mistake then. In fact, I didn't check the temperature of the juce. Doh. Haha

Yeah, this juice tested @ 1.071 so on the high side. I'm wondering if the yeast would support fermentation to 6.5%, is that high for an ale yeast?

Thanks so much for the replies folks! A little update; I took some gravity reading today since I wanted to stir my blueberry wine and would have all my testing equipment sterilized. I'm just guessing for the ciders OG (I had plenty of juice from the same production date unfermented) and...

This batch was pitched with a beer yeast, and the juice wasn't clear by any means. It was an unfiltered apple juice with lots of solids in it. All I can do is wait and see. It's just hard because it's my first ever batch of cider and I'm excited about it. I started three more batches yesterday...

Does primary fermentation look the same in both cider and beer? I'm just guessing that I have some slow yeast because there's really no foam on top, but everything has small CO2 bubbles coming to the top. It looks like I filled a jug with cloudy soda. ☺

Thanks Mark. I know there is still fermentation going on because it's producing small bubbles still. I'll wait until it slows down and check gravity with a hydrometer I bought yesterday. Would the lack of foam on top indicate a slow fermentation?

Hello everyone, I'm brand new to the forum and apologize if my questions have already been answered in previous threads. I've never done any brewing by myself before, assistant brewer, plenty of times. So I basically clean and sanitize and have got that part down. Haha I picked up a...