Recent content by Jhoss

Speaking of high sugar - I hope this pic comes thru of my Zumi Crab juice- hydro reads 1084.

Indeed..."icky feelings". Seems like common sense to me. You just go with your dirt, fungus, worms, worm poo and rot - I'm sure it will be fine.

I wash and cut out bad spots. Craft cider to me is to make it the BEST you can. Unsprayed apples also (in SE Michigan) come with fungus, black sooty blotch and flyspec. Wash a couple dozen in a white sink or bucket and checkout that mud water you are left with. Google Biokleen soap. It is a...

I have not settled on a recipe yet and because here in Mich, Oberon is so available (except in winter), I 've pretty much given up on the recipe. If I were you I would study the previous posts and give one a rip (I doubt decoction is necessary). You will end up with a nice drinkable (semi)...

Where in Mich?

Dabinette, Michigan. KingstonBlack and YarlingtonMill probably next year.

Looking forward to the taste test and which one rises to the top!

I've got enough from my own trees to give either a try. I'm going to run my "base-sweet" apples together. But my Cider apples (Wickson and Dabinette) I'm going to press and ferment separate for a blending experiment post ferment. Base sweet-apples are Honeycrisp, Pixiecrunch, Sundance. I...

I really cant speak to cider, but with beer brewing 1272, to me, is the best, most innocuous flavor enhancing yeast. I am intrigued by the premise of using if for cider. I have Cotes de Blanc as well as 1272 and they are going into 1 gallon carboys of home grown apple juice side by side soon...

I'm interested in your project here, well, your progress, well your process...all three! Thanks for the post.

$100...helluva deal!

Jolicoeur inspired home build...

The topic seems to be "thinning apple trees". This topic I am no stranger to. The problems with turning the little green apples into Chicken food is unless they rot on the ground or get broken open, my chickens ingnore...also, dumping buckets and buckets into the chicken run could make them...

Good looking units there. That grinder you can adapt with an electric motor - hand turning is work! Good Luck and please report back!

Umm...I have a comment on this recipe and the time it takes for this beer to "peak". I have brewed it many times and I have to say that when it's young it strikes me as quite harsh/bitter. I have been barbeque'd over this premise before. I leave it in primary for 3 weeks, that 21 days, they...