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I'm looking into making edwort's Apfelwein recipe with the Wyeast, and my question is if I can substitute apple cider for juice. I know the difference between cider and juice is that juice is filtered and cider is basically juice with all the apple solids left in. What I'm basically after...

....anyone got a recipe for one?

alright, the guy at my LHBS said that there are actually MORE yeast cells in a packet of dried yeast than in a yeast starter, but what makes yeast starters better or more preferable? is it because yeast cells in a starter are already active when pitching or what?

I'm about to brew the first batch that I've made in quite some time, but I'm a bit nervous about it. The last two batches I made, a red and a brown ale, came out sour, whereas the previous two batches, a red ale and an IPA, came out just fine. The only variation in procedure I made was that I...

just cracked into my 2nd batch, irish red ale, after 3 weeks aging...no complaints about the taste whatsoever, but just out of sheer curiosity, i'm wondering if anyone could maybe tell me why it came out cloudy

my question is this...if I sanitized something (i.e. hydrometer, carboy, whatever...) used it, and then rinse it out very well or rinse off whatever gets on said item, is there any need to sanitize it again? also, if I store my carboy upside down while all the rinse water drains out of it...

i love green tea, and was considering trying to add it to a batch of brew for flavor, and wanted to know if anyone thought this might be a bad idea, and if not, how much is usually good to add to a batch also, i've always thought mint and chocolate was a good combo, and wondering if anyone...

alright here's the deal....bought an imperial pale ale kit from local homebrew shop. cooked it up yadda yadda, starting gravity was around 1.075. seven days in the primary, was getting ready to transfer to secondary, checked the gravity at about 1.024. i figured it wasn't low enough to proceed...

I brewed up my batch, let it cool, transfered to fermenter, pitched yeast at about 11pm yesterday. several hours later (maybe about 9-10am this morning), i saw some bubbling going on in the airlock, not very vigorous, about every minute or so. got home from class at about 4pm, nothing...