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This thread just keeps getting longer... Haven't been reading it for a while, but I have been brewing small batches. What I've been wondering is yeast re-use. At the moment I have a 4-jug system. My brewday is also my bottling day, so I can use yeast slurry from the previous beer. Works like a...

I have indeed dumped everything in the past and gotten very drinkable brews. It's just that I have no head whatsoever and since I've covered all the usual suspects (or I think I am), I thought to try lessen the trub. I would definitely not use paper towel strained wort without sanitizing it and...

Hmm, ok, I guess I'll try to improve my technique still a bit if there is hope. Perhaps if I just let it settle for a looong time... How long have you usually waited, divrguy? Just got a box of new malts so I'm ready to experiment. I think I'll start with Common Room ESB from this forum and...

Hello fellow one galloners! Been reading this thread for a while, very good info. Took some time to read it through (6 brews, I think). Anyway, I have been struggling with head retention, or the lack of it, and as a cure I am trying to get less trub to my primary. I'm doing 5 liter BIAB brews...

I don't live in US so I may not have the kind of juice concentrate you guys have there, but... I have made two batches of apple cider from concentrate. 100% apple juice, no preservatives, no added sugar. Just juice, yeast and time. The better batch is now on it's sixth month and I still don't...

OK. Mysterious are the ways of the yeast. :) I'll go on like planned. Thanks!

I have some weird behavior in my first cider. I have 14 liters of apple juice (from concentrate), safale s04 yeast and no added sugar. OG 1.046. It's been in the primary for three weeks now. It started nicely and there was active fermentation for about a week, then it slowed down, but there's...

My "LHBS" is also rather far away and additionally is not very well equipped. They happened to have some Safale S04 and S05, but at rather outrageous prices (it's almost cheaper to order stuff from Germany and pay 10-20€ postage for couple of bags) so I'd like to freeze some for later use. Is...

I'm actually having same kind of situation. I'm getting a chest freezer that I thought I'd use to mature my cheeses, but I was also thinking perhaps I should use it for cider making. My apartment temperature is around 21C (70F) but I can't really put a fermenting bucket to our living room...

Thanks everybody for the warm welcome. The weather here is very summery, but it can't decide if it's rainy or shiny. Mike, I had to check the wikipedia for the lutefish, had never heard it in English :) My mother is very exited about lipeäkala (especially in christmas time), but I could never...

Was browsing info for cider making. There seems to be no good newbie-info sources out there. Homebrewtalk had lots of threads about cider making and it seemed overall like a good place. I stayed :) So I guess the answer is: googled.

Hello everybody! After couple of days of reading this excellent forum, I thought it best to join and perhaps participate in the conversation. Since I'm almost complete newbie to brewing, I'm not sure how valuable input I will be giving, but we'll see. My experience with home-made alcoholic...