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Just got back into brewing again and bought a bunch of seven gallon brew buckets. I cant remember how they were shipped but one way or another they were unboxed. I dont know if i t was myself or my wife who stacked them in one another with nothing inbetween them. I remember it was important to...

can turkey fryer pots work for brewing?, saw a nice 28 quart pot and burner set up for like 50$ at wally world.

I dont have 2 carboys, i only have a brew bucket and a better bottle. I wanted to make a 5 gallon batch of joes quick grape mead, and you have to rack in 7-14 days. So i was wondering if i could go first 2 weeks in brew bucket, then rack into better bottle? Anyone ever use brew bucket for first...

Does anyone know where i can find good prices on clover honey? Im going to make a 5 gallon batch of joes quick grape, and 2 gallons of jaom very soon. I live in upstate NY

I just started out with a ale pail, better bottle, auto-siphon, and a bottling bucket. I bought all my equipment piece by piece and spent like $140.00, but that included a bottle of star san, hydrometer, blah blah blah. I actually searched after the fact and saw beginner kits for like $80.00...

I love cranberry juice and was tossing around the idea of back sweetening my hard apple cider with a couple cans of cranberry concentrate rather than apple concentrate. This is my first batch of cider so im really not sure, any ideas?

Three to four weeks in secondary, going to bottle soon and i took a look at my cider and has this off white crap floating in it! I used raw cider which i hit with campden, then i pitched red star champagne yeast, also added cinnamon stick and cloves. It spent one week in primary, 3-4 in...

I plan on racking my cider onto sorbate/camden pretty soon, should i just mix the sorbate/camden into my sweetner and rack onto that? or sorbate/campden, wait a day, then sweeten, and when you sweeten should you rack on top of sweetner?? I plan to sweeten with frozen can concentrate, letting it...

Im going to be bottling soon, my beer and my hard cider. So i wanted to move them so if anything was shaken up it would have a day to settle back down. Should i pull the airlocks right out, then insert them in when i have the 2 batches where i want theM? Also, temperature is going to change to...

Ive been trolling forums and it seems no one has a hard tea recipe besides tea and vodka haha. I know there are two guys here trying it out, you would think it would actually be simple. Steep your tea, add enough sugar to 1.050, use a yeast that ferments to like 5% and bottle carbonate? There is...

haha i live in upstate NY and Stewarts are everywhere. well they have their own brew, its called Mountain Brew Beer Ice haha. For 3 dollars a six pack and 75 cents a beer i had to try it. Well its beer, but my buddy who is a avid drinker says it tastes like gym socks, but if you want to catch a...

Had to move my cider after three weeks...... when i was gently moving it i watched 3 week old vodka go right into my cider :( i cursed, then wondered..... is my cider ruined and or tainted?, this really upsets me. If not tainted, are there some techniques i can follow to moved batches with...

I took a look at joes grape mead and i though it looked appealing. So i started a one gallon batch today, followed recipe to a tee, but im not sure if starting og was 1.120 or 1.140, should of wrote down right then but i was too concentrated on sealing everything up real quick. Here are some...

I bought this indoor/outdoor air thermometer it slipped on counter and cracked a little, but appeared to be taking accurate readings. I also have a liquid thermometer, will this accurately take air readings? I hope not, because i put that one side by side with other thermometer and they are...

Finished my first brew last night, the kit i used was american wheat extract version. Started by heating up top off water (sanitizing my well water) then bringing main pot to boil. What i come to realize is that extract malt is THICKER than molasses. Next time i will preheat in pan haha. Then i...

Going from bucket to carboy after 1 week. I figured i wouldnt need much cider to top of for less air space, so i grabbed some cold cider from fridge, no preservatives just flash pasturized. Thought i would only need cup, so temperature wouldnt matter.... well it took 1/2 gallon, then i also had...

I figured id back sweeten with apple concentrate. I was thinking of like frozen apple juice concentrate, like minute made or something. Anyone know a good frozen juice? and how many cans i should use to sweeten 5 gallons so its not over sweet...

I sanitized my cider day before last with campden for 24 hours. I let my yeast sit in like 65-70 degrees for 8 hours to activate (had it in fridge). I mixed my yeast in with like 1/4 cup of luke warm water like package says. Mixed in yeast, threw in some cloves and cinnamon sticks. When should i...

I sanitized my cider day before last with campden for 24 hours. I let my yeast sit in like 65-70 degrees for 8 hours to activate (had it in fridge). I mixed my yeast in with like 1/4 cup of luke warm water like package says. Mixed in yeast, threw in some cloves and cinnamon sticks. When should i...

I always here people saying that the carbonation from Smirnoff and other carbonated drinks make them sick. So what do you guys think, should i carbonate my hard cider? Or should i just leave it as a refreshing easy to drink juice? Its hopefully going to be a sweet flavorful cider, adding no sugar.