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Does this really make six gallons of beer? You're only using six gallons of water between the mash and sparge water, so I would expect the actual yield to be significantly less - how much do you generally get from this recipe?

The only preservatives were ascorbic acid - I've used the same brand cider before and it worked well enough. No, I basically just emptied the lees (and a bit of liquid above it) from another batch into a tupperware container and put it in the fridge.

So this one has some odd circumstances behind it... about a couple weeks ago I made EdWort's Bavarian Hefeweizen and after racking it out dumped 6 gallons of cider right onto that yeast cake (Wyeast 3068--Weihenstephaner). Both brews came out great, but then I decided to save the lees so I could...

Just brewed up a batch yesterday. I decided to make a 6 gallon batch, so just used 2/5 of all the ingredients in the 15 gallon recipe (except I used 90oz of pumpkin - I like pumpkin). Everything went swimmingly, except I forgot the wheat flakes. Oh well - I hope it doesn't effect the taste to...

Why do some people add maple to their primary then? :confused:

I want to brew a batch of cider for the holidays, and given that it's fall, this seemed like an appropriate combination of ingredients. I'm not sure how much maple syrup (or what kind) to use in the cider. I'd like the maple to be prominent, but not overpower the apple. How much syrup should I...

I just made the same recipe, actually. It takes a couple days to clear if you've moved it around too much. A week, maybe, if you moved it a lot.

The carbonation gave it just enough bite to counter the sweetness - quite nice. I get a lot of banana, not much clove. Overall deliciousness! Very nice recipe! Just the way a Hefeweizen should taste.

If you really want to know, why not buy a some of the cider you originally used?

Did you use a yeast starter for the fermentis, or just hydrate the yeast and throw it in?

156F No, the wort cooled a bit first.

So, me and my friends have recently gotten into home-brewing. We started with some mead, and now we've moved to beer. Being young and cocky, we decided that we'd just jump right in to AG brewing, and skip extracts altogether. The local home brew store didn't have any German Red Wheat, so I...