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Alright sounds good, looks like ill be buying a few gallon jugs and caps.

I am planing on doing a few 1-3 gallon batches of various experiment ciders and was wondering what could I age them in after primary. I don't really want to bottle them as its a PITA and a huge waste of effort for such small batches. Would storing them in a small Carlos Rossis type wine jug...

The recipe I used was the same as eds, corn sugar and treetop. I used notty ale yeast and it fermented at around 60 but the temperatures varied. The only thing I can think of is that since I ran out of Idophur right before I went to sterilize my bottles I had to use bleach water to sterilize...

I have about 12 bombers of Apfelwein left that have been bottled for about a year now, and they taste off. Very tart, with a chemically after taste and extremely dry. I was wondering if anyone in the portland area could help me decipher what went wrong.

If you want fruity try myer lemon peel or fresh orange peel

I am from Portland Oregon and after a few months of trying to catch a bit of this stuff i finally did and it is awesom!!!!! But I don't understand why big time beer stores aka Johns market and Belmont station never had it. So tonight I strolled over to New seasons in Sellwood and what do ya know...

fermenting low and slow is probably a better idea than a 5 day ferment, besides you should let it clear before bottling and age a few months at least for optimal flavor.

I recently finished drinking a younger cider that I made, and I found it to be very similar to strongbow even though ti still tasted young. Heres the recipe: x gallons treetop applejuice 1 cup white sugar for every gallon of juice. 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract per gallon Instead of...

Bottled my apfelwein on the 6th of feb. and it tasted awful, still very tart after like 3ish months and it has a weird after taste, butter like or something very hard to explain. Its clear and there are no signs of infection although for it to go south after its been done fermenting for a month...

Anyone know where I can buy this lovely sounding beer in Portland? I've found their Original Orange blossom ale at Johns Market and it was amazing but I cant seem to find the Black Noddy. Help would be appreciated.

Haha funny stuff. Ya I really had no plan on drinking it yet just wanted to taste it. I always assumed that young cider would have more of an off flavor and some boozieness to it but ya this stuff is definitely tart. I wish really really wish I had a 5 gallon kegging setup with maybe 3 corneys...

Um tbh not sure, I tried to take a grav reading like 3 weeks ago and it read under 1.00 but the tube i was trying to float in wawsnt large enough in diameter so the hydro was catching on the sides of the tube. Either way im sure its well under 1.

I made apfelwien with treetop aj corn sugar and notty yeast and its been in primary for nearly 2 months but its really tart. Like a cheap wine tart is that normal or is it vinegarizing?

Boil the pot and skim the wax off then use a solvent to remove the residue, and rinse the crap out of it.

Well I just checked the hydro on all 3 of my ciders and they seem to be done, its hard to tell if its an accurate reading though. Anyone my 2 1 gallon experiments should be done for sure so I'm throwing them in the fridge for a few days. I'm going to try and take another reading on the...

Ehhhhh well by the end of December it will have been 5 weeks, it its not a steady grav reading and clearing by then ill leave it be........doesn't need to be super clear. Worse comes to worse Ill bottle my 2 gallon batches which are abit older. A few bottles of "hot" cider won't bother me a bit...

I've had the TJ's Mexican style lager wasn't bad pretty close to a landshark or corona.

As of the 19th it is dropping and is starting to look like it may be clearing.

I can make better cheesecake than safeway.................there I said it. Following this line a homebrewer can make better beer than a prof brewer. IT JUST TAKES PRACTICE AND SPECIALIZATION.

Damn one of you portlanders are going to have to hook me up. I wanna try homebrew sooo bad but with limited supplies and all I wont be able to brew my own till January while I wait for my Apfelwein to finish.