Recent content by jaacarson

Growing hops in Las Cruces New Mexico. First year planted cascade and chinook. They were growing great until something clipped my cascade. I had three shoots coming off one rhizome and two shoots coming off the other rhizome. They were at least 8ft. tall. Then something clipped all the...

I decided to postpone my plan to bottle and force carbonate as I said in my previous post. I left it alone for another couple days then put it in the refrigerator to help stuff settle out. When I checked the specific gravity. It had dropped a bit more to 1.024. I bottled a half in a 2 liters...

After 8 days in the one gallon carboy with a blow off tube. Active fermentation has died off. SG 1.095, FG 1.028, 69% attenuation, ABV 8.79%. I'm going to crash cool it and siphon the cider into 2 liter bottles and force carbonate. Took a little taste after measuring gravity. It has a...

It was just an experiment. I am fairly new to brewing cider. I was trying to get a concentrated apple flavor and with fermentables. Note: t's a expensive way to go...18 bucks of juice for a one gallon batch. Simple syrup or white sugar would be a lot less expensive.

I have twice made 1-gallon batches of a simple cider using Martinelli's Apple Juice and US-05. SG was 1.057 and FG was 1.23. It was a lightly colored sweet and crisp cider coming in about 4.4% ABV. I thought that both batches Turned out well. my wife likes it and she won't drink my beer, or...