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I have 4.5 gallons fresh pressed cider. I added about 4 lbs sugar to some water. Heated sugar in water to disolve. I used S05 yeast. OG 1.070. At 1.020, I put the carboy outside where it was in the 40s f. After 2 days, I racked and added 2.5 tsp of potassium sorbate As soon as it...

I had 2 carboys filled around nov 1 with fresh apple cider that had been "Cold Pasteurized" which I have no idea what that means. I tasted the cider and it was great, so I just added wine yeast and left it alone. It now tastes like bitter green apples. SG is .998 or just below 1.000 I...

I was told I could get fresh cider for $2.75 a gallon. I gave the guy 2 sanitized glass carboys. He had them filled. Cider was awesome alone. OG 1.050 I added wine yeast nothing else. Checked it a week and half later, Gravity about 0 or 1.000 Tasted bitter. I did not want high...

I was a little surprised, I drew a little bit off the first day, I got nothing. I got about 8 ounces of trub on the third day. This is the fifth day. This is second generation, I was not planning on keeping it, but it shore is purdy. I did sanatize the cup and fitting. I even sprayed the...

I had a cube of my house ale. Starter was from washed yeast 1.2 litres for what ended up to be 3 days on the stir plate. I poured the wort through a strainer to catch the hops and trub. It splashed A LOT. I had a head of foam to the top of the fermenter. (2" or one gallon). I pitched the...

I collected (skimmed) this from an oatmeal stout. This is what I ended up with. David :)

Sanitizer to wipe the mouth of my starter, or flask, or clean my thermometer before I put it in the beer and a few other uses. About $2.00 for 50 or 100 available at any drug store. I wait a short time to let the alcohol flash off. David :)

I am sitting here drinking my house ale. It came out perfect, just what I was expecting. I took 9 or so years off from brewing for a lot of reasons. Now I am trying to get my life back. I got back into brewing a few months ago. The first batch I made was "yellow Beer" or my house ale...

Not a question, but just a statement. I have read of lag times up to 72 hours on this board. Yesterday I brewed an Oatmeal stout. Starter was Wyeast 1.6 litres 1084 on a stir plate for 2 days. I pumped Oxygen into the ball valve at the bottom of the keg for 5 minutes, no stone just pure...

I read here that campdem tabs will remove clorine. It also says on the package Potassium Metabilsulfite. How do I use em? Or did I buy the wrong stuff? David :)

I smacked inoculator pack of Wyeast 1084. Put 800 ml of wort in the flask, boiled it and let it cool thinking the smack pack would swell up while the flask cooled. When it was time to pitch, the pack had not swelled, so I opened it and poured it in. I smelled it and it was terrible. I don't...

Hey you guys this is crazy. I brewed the same way for quite a few years. I started in 1992. My only information came from the home brew digest, Charlie P's book and Dave Millers book. I stopped about 1999 maybe 2,000. So I start brewing Late in may. First time in 9 or 10 years. I have...

I always open fermented in a converted 1/2 keg. Usually I used Wyeast german ale 1007 from a huge starter. 11 gallons went in the converted keg with the huge starter, oxygenated, and a lid on it. After 6 days the beer was drawn into 2 cornies and the rest left behind along with the trub on...

Just a question. I don't mash out. Today I did a 90 minute 156* infusion. The runnings got down to 1.0084 give or take. The mash temp never got over 160*f. Did I extract tannin from the husk? I usually stop at 1.010. I hit the target gravity right on and efficiency was the usual 83% I...

I brewed an all grain batch last Sunday. After the boil over, I ended up with 11 gallons of 1.057 wort. I cooled it with an immersion chiller that took about an hour. (working on that). I hydrated 2 packs of S-05 yeast in 1.5 cups warm tap water. It started foaming like I expected, but the...

I brewed for about 7 years, then took 10 years off and now I am back to it. In the beginning (the first time around) I used ONE kit, then started buying extract for a couple of batches while I built a simple brewery out of (2) 1/2 and one 1/4 keg. Been doing the all grain thing since. I...