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have you considered repurposing a shop press for the frame and the jack? Ive seen some videos of people doing this on youtube and you can pick one up for 120 at harbor freight.

If anybody is in the west michigan/grand rapids area, Klein Cider Mill off of alpine and 9 mile has it for 6 bucks a gallon this year. Its normally 3.50 if you buy in bulk, but considering his apple prices tripled this yea, i'm not complaining. They also have the best cider in the area if i do...

It's still air tight, no odor from other items will contaminate it as long as the lid is on tight. You can also squeeze out the air as well

Make sure you leave your gallon about a cup short to compensate for expansion

Ended up at about 1.000 so the sugar fermented all the way out. Back sweetened with 1lb lactose, but it didnt add much sweetness. It's in secondary now to clear out. Per my calculations based on temp and fg, im getting about 8.4 %, figure in i added about 3 cups of water with the lactose, and im...

So I just brewed my first ginger beer. Used 2lb ginger, 3lb corn sugar, 3lb table sugar, the juice of 10 lemons and the zest of 2 lemons. I put the ginger through a food processor then steeped it in hot water for 3 hours. Boiled that with the lemon juice and zest with 2 gallons of water, added...

When do you add the lactose?

I'm not sure if they still carry them, but harbor freight use to have what was basically an off brand version of that co2 setup. I picked one up for an air cannon at around 50 bucks.