Recent content by Knkbrand

what do you use to back sweeten your cider, or do you like them dry?

I have not tried the beer kits, but the cider kits are pretty good IMHO.

your cider is fine, completely normal. this is just me, but as my ciders and beers are clearing, I give the carboy a couple of good, firm twists back and forth to break the sediment clinging to the side of the carboy. not necessary, I'm just neurotic.

I personally think this is a bad idea, and will be the beginning of the end.

when I went to Portland, I thought there were ads all over the hotel saying that the next year would be in Rhode Island. Maybe I am misremembering. I hope it gets announced tomorrow!

I thought I would hear some kind of news about next years Homebrew Con, but cannot find any information. Cn anyone that is in San Diego this weekend fill us in on the location for next years Homebrew Con 2024?

surprised no one has answered your question. I was looking for the answer as well.

edited to be more specific: I always do a liquid yeast starter at room temp on a stir plate, then I pitch at room temp, and then add CO2 to 10psi to my pressure fermentation vessle, and let it go. never gets below 68 degrees, and for me it tastes fine.

I was dosing a pint of cream ale with these different emulsions, and they were kind of chunky in the glass. They didn't dissolve and mix like an extract. I heated 5ml of water and added 1ml of emulsion and stired, and then added that to the cream ale. it seemed to mix better. That is when I...

My simple Pilsner

yep, i had that issue as well, the sugar settling. That is why I use the purged keg, so I can roll it around and keep it mixed. I have used brewers best conditioning tabs, they are easy and work well, just expensive compared to corn sugar. you put anywhere from 3-5 in each bottle (depending...

that would work for sure. Lots of different ways to tackle this for sure. I would aim to skip the bottling bucket all together, but the bottling bucket would work. I love my pressure fermentation vessle. Makes good lagers at room temp.

I don't use carbonation drops, but I purge a keg using Starsan and CO2. I add my sugar to a purged Brown PET bottle. Pressurize my PET bottle higher than my keg. I use a quick disconnects and a short tube to attach the brown PET bottle to the purged keg. The higher pressure in the PET bottle...

..drop the spunding valve setting and let the beer degas. use carbonation drops in each bottle, and transfer straight from the fermzilla to each bottle.

I just bought a 5 different emulsions to use for flavoring my beer. I am just curious when in the process do you use your emulsion? Boil? Fermentation? Keg? Thanks for your help.