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I've tried messing around with ciders every now and then using desert apples. Recently, I found a local orchard with traditional Cider apples, an picked 140 pounds of of apples. Varieties used were Kingston Black, Brown Snout, Ashmead's Kernel, Kermerien, and Frequin Rouge, in a ratio of...

Well, a week later, and as above, I've retried with 6lbs german pilsner, .5 caravienne, .5 carafoam, and 2.5lb of honey, and we have wort - the only issue was that during the sparge the pickup tube came free from the valve, and I had to run the stuff through a collander. Beyond that, all seems...

Sorry, yes, I did mean strike temp for mash temp of 158.

Okay, so I'm tinkering with beersmith, and so I've adjusted some things - I was attempting to experiment with the crystal malts here, so here's a revised recipe; I still like the idea of a little caramel in this one, but I've toned it down rather dramatically, and added some carafoam for head...

Thanks for all the feedback! Here's what I was thinking with the step mash; I was thinking that since I was getting a bunch of fermentable sugar out of the honey, I'd try to emphasize dextrins in the grain portion of the wort but having a long, high temperature mash. The 140/145 was supposed...

So, today was my first all grain, and about everything possible that could go wrong, did. I'm looking for some advise, and some feedback. First, my background - I've been brewing extract brews for about 18 months, and so far, have had no major incidents other than one boil over (not bad, beer...