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any update on how this beer turned out? would love to give it a try. any tips/changes?

getting the apples out of the carboy was definiley tough. After racking to secondary, the apples were quite a mess. It took alot of shaking and washing to get everything out of there...but the beer tastes delicious

I am thinkking the same thing. My "5-gallon" secondary definilty has some head space where could probably fit the beer and I am positive that this beer is going to need to do some clearing/settling out. Time to start thinking about the next brew :ban:

JTK, did you end up moving to secondary then? I ended up just adding the cider to primary, as you had done, as i only had a 5 gallon for secondary. Glad I did not too since adding the cider brings it up to 5.5 and another round of Krausen has sprung up higher. Is secondary still needed...

wow crazy. so are you thinking it's better to just keep the beer in the 6 gallon primary rather than racking to 5 gallon secodary when throwing in the cider/honey?

Are you guys all adding 2 lbs of honey? and 5lbs of apples? i was thinking the "#" meant units. So 5 apples and 2 containers of honey... Oh well the sample i tasted after the first hydro reading tasted great, so im sure it will end up great. Krausen was visible within a couple hours and there...

So what's up with the different OG's....I cam out with a 1.055, OP had 1.069 and jkratzer came out with a 1.042. Still a relatively new homebrewer, can anyone explain this difference? I was under the impression that with an extract brew that the OG would not vary too much. Of course i guess...

Brewed this guy yesterday with your extra tips, fermentation took off within a couple hours and the house smelled amazing. One questions though... My OG reading came out around 1.055 which seems much lower than the 1.069 you stated. The juice hasn't been added yet, but you did mention your...

Thinking about making this recipe... how did it end up turning out? This will be my first time brewing without ordering a kit and just going off a recipe....any tips?

haha alright my bad, ill try to be more specific next time. I'm still pretty new to homebrewing and hadnt even considered any of those factors. nice reply tho :mug: obviously it would be tough to drink just one beer at all times. Its a tough questions to answer, thats why i was interested in...

I was just thinking about this the other day...if I had to choose what beer to drink for the rest of my life what would it be. Any of you guys have a homebrew recipe you would choose as the one and only from here on?

Just finished my first brew, and will begin bottling in a couple weeks. Now i have to start thinking about what i am going to do my second time around. Any recipe suggestions for a novice brewer looking to make a great, but not to complicated beer?