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finally bottled this brew made several changes to the recipe based on what was available replaced one of the hops with wilimente, dont remember which one because i dont take notes but i think it was the fuggle used a British ale yeast and used mostly dme the fuggle returned for the dry hopping...

I was purchasing trogs nugget nectar and a gentleman, whom was holding a 24 pack of bud asked me "what type of lemonade is that?"

Thanks. I had to research what SMaSH was, and that was exactly what i want to get done.

I just built myself a 2 gallon mash tun so I can begin learning the ins and outs of all grain brewing w/o spending a fortune going full size. So right now im looking for some simple recipes to cut my teeth on.

I have made 3 batches so far as a home brewer. the first batch came out perfect. the 2 batch was awful. It was a nut brown and it did not carbonate and had this super sweet taste that was not very appetizing. I feel that the yeast did not consume the sugar. The 3rd batch is what im asking...

I started this cider about 2 weeks ago and I'm going to keep it in primary for one more week. But I'm worried about it. At first the fermentation smelled like carmel apples and semi pleasant.now however it smells pretty awful. It's the smell coming our of the air lock indicative of any issue or...

Im making a first attempt at this cider... at five gallons. so far all is going ok. the sugar foamed up when i took an eye off it, but it doesn't taste burnt (tastes like carmel marshmallows :).

A week ago m roommate started a hef (im not going to embarrass myself with a speling attempt). No fermentation happened, no bubbles in the air lock no signs that the yeast was doing its job. I had some champagne yeast on had from a 1/2 gal cider experiment i was doing and we threw that in...

I'm deciding on wether or not to start another cider using an aliquot of the cider that i have started about a week ago. I'm not sure if i should do this or if i should hold off until i can get more yeast or if i should go full steam ahead with this plan. Any Ideas.

I searched "how long do you ferment cider" and this was the first site to pop up with useful information

Today I Started my first hard cider fermentation. im brewing in a 1/2 gal growler (small batches for experiments). Im relatively new at this (by relatively new i mean entirely new). I used Red Star pastur Champagne yeast (e491? at least thats the number on the packet) about a 1/2 to 1...

Hi, my name is Tom. I started home brewing a couple of months ago and im looking forward to continuing my brewing into the future. I like playing on words. especially with beer puns (hence the hop ing). I.m not usually very social in the forums i am part of, but i wan to ask questions and...