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    Love this simple cider recipe

    I buy generic juice at $2 a gal and do the same.... I usually ferment it longer (4 weeks), I like it dry as a bone, but for most, it is too sour. I find substituting half of the apple juice for cranberry juice cocktail makes a sweeter final product (high fructose corn syrup is less...
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    Will Red Star baker's yeast make an acceptable cider?

    one way to find out is to make 1 gallon batch and see.
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    Can we use plastic bottles?

    1l seltzer bottles for my cider. Not good for long term storage, but for bottle carbing, they are very handy.
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    I'm back again.. I opened another bottle from a different batch with this recipe: Molasses #11 (feb 25) ½ cup corn ½ cup oats 8oz molasses 16oz sugar .75 oz cascade hops redstar champagne yeast 4/29 bottle: At bottling it has a little spice flavor. You can see from my notes that it fermented...
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    I had to come back to this thread to say. I just did a side by side taste test of my George Washington inspired beer vs Budweiser Freedom Reserve. Of course the verdict is that mine is better! Mine has more body, more hops, and much more flavor. I can barely taste the molasses in the Bud...
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    It's still brewing.... been cold all my brews are moving slowly right now. I had a little taste of the no-boil brew. It's sort of "grassy" I think it should finish soon.
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    Pineapple flavor

    Interesting.... I don't know a lot about Brett, but maybe you are right. I wish I could reproduce this one..... it is nice.
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    Pineapple flavor

    I am drinking a cider right now that taste like pineapple. There is no pineapple in it :) There is a bit of a story to this cider. It started like all my ciders: pasteurized apple juice + AJC + nottingham + 3 weeks in the fermenter. After 3weeks, I bottled it like clock work. Then 2 weeks...
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    It will be interesting to see, I read all the time that beer was drunk in the past because the water wasn't safe (the alcohol killed the bad stuff), and the preservative properties of hops..... all of which sound a little suspect to me so maybe I am breeding some nasty bugs as we speak. As...
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    Time will tell. My water is good, the syrups are shelf stable and I dry hop all the time with the hops so I am not too worried. But we will see, it might be a mistake.
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    Today I had no time, but an air lock was free and we all know an empty fermenter is a waste..... So, today's version is no-boil (1/2 gallon batch) 4 oz molasses 10 oz corn syrup 0.5 oz cascade hops yeast nutrients red star pasture (or whatever it is called now....) OG: 1.052 mix the...
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    Old School Cider

    your post brings back memories. My family used to press apples from our trees (old neglected orchard that produced small, hard, tart apples), it would sit in the basement in jugs as we drank it. I became wonderfully tart, carbonated and buzz forming. Great memories. In hindsight, I think...
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    really basic, really cheap, really loving it.

    I find that without yeast nutrient, I get rhino farts. It's worth it to me to avoid that.
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    I believe what we call molasses in the US comes from sugar cane. Apparently there is some that comes from sorghum cane also. I've not tried it. At this point the quantity is pretty low compared to the other sugars. At this point it is become a sugar beer. take that beer snobs :)
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    Vinegar

    Headspace should not have been an issue, fermented in gallon jug up to the neck. I think I will drink it quickly :)
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    Vinegar

    I bottled a batch of cider last night (1 gal). My taste test said it had a little vinegar flavor to it. I guess I need to watch my sanitation. It's a little disappointing. :(
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    Thanks for sticking with me on this journey Miraculix, I have enjoyed the experimentation and documenting it here even if it s kind of a solo mission. My daughter who does not do gluten-free tried the molasses beer last night. She liked it. It's different, if you are looking for a "craft...
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    Been drinking some sorghum beer that I made and came back to this one tonight. Really happy with it especially compared to the sorghum. it's time to brew the next batch. I think this is the recipe I am going to do: Molasses Beer #6 (1gal) 5oz molasses (weight) 16oz invert sugar (weight) 2...
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    Store Juice

    I've made many gallons from store bought juice with ascorbic acid. No problems.
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    Molasses Table Beer (small beer)

    I finally managed to sample and take a pict. It's great, there is a little residual sweetness left, a little sourness from the molasses. Some may say it has some "cider" like flavor from sugar. Some nice bitterness from the hop. No head, but nice and clear:
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