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Thakog, I chose option #4 and pitched the batch. I had another 3ga batch of Graff that turned that I bottled at the same time and there was no comparison. There was no way the batch that I oaken was ever going to turn out even half as good as the batch of Graf f. It was one of those cut your...

So a funny thing happend on the way to bottling my oaked, aged cider. I think I wound up with an infection from not fully sterilizing the oak cubes I used (home toasted oak). This cider started as a variant of Graham's English cider about and kinda took off from there. It has aged for about four...

Thanks man!

I was doing a bit of reseach and reading trying to up my knowledge about unfermentable sugars today and I came across a reference from 1997 on the mad fermentationist website about making homemade carmel for brewing using karo corn syrup and diammonium phosphate: "The homemade caramel was...

Thanks for the correction Clayton. If I'm not mistaken isn't what you're talking about basically what Brandon is doing with his graff receipe?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and show my inexperience but..... Instead of boiling your whole wort what about the idea of taking a smaller quantity of good quality juice say maybe >1 ga, depending on your batch size, and throwing it on the stove and very slowly reduce it to the point where...

Whoops! Thanks for the head up on the mispelling - missed that in the rework. Thanks for the tip on the fonts. I'll check them out this evening.... one of the problems I had been having was readability once the label was shrunk down to printing size. I'll give those fonts a try.

Dude that looks awesome! The red with the "frosted" detailing really pops! As a thought that might look good printed on translucent labels when it gets to bottling time.

Gratus - You are giving me way too much credit. Thank you....but as I said early I did a little shopping on the internet to find the base images. I wish I could take credit for drawing these women. While I can manage to edit and change images, developing them from scratch is sadly beyond my...

Thanks for the suggestions machinelf! I agree about the spacing of the text on the side label and will make the change when I get a moment. Unfortunately using lower case on the general text in the side bar actually makes it harder to read when the label is printed due to shrinkage issues. I...

LOL, I love it! The roughness from doing it in paint actually works really well with the whole concept!

Thanks for the compliments dudes! I was in no way shape or form expecting that! I do have to say that I can't really take credit for all of the work....I did a little creative browsing on that there interweb for the base art. I wish I could have used the original art for the Graff but little...

LiquidCourage - You have a great talent for layout and design! Its also very bleeping nice of you to share something like this! IowaState - As a noobe brewer myself, I gotta say if my wife were to suprise me with something like what you are doing I would be thrilled! Kudos to you for doing...

Yup, another in a long list of requests for feedback on labels ;) I kinda working on a bit of a theme here with my brew labels....a bit of a homage to SWMBO if you will. This is based partially on her willingness to put up with me spending money we don't have on brew stuff and largely on the...

No harm, no foul Yan. :p While I generally love the climate in Florida you definately have some climatic advantages that I sometimes wish were available to me. I would love to have the ability to do long, slow, ferments without the expense of have to deal with fridges, freezers and temperature...