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I fermented a cider on top of my IPA's yeast cake and bottled after three weeks. I siphoned the 1 gallon of cider on top of a simple syrup made with 1oz of corn sugar before bottling to ensure an even sugar distribution. Three weeks after bottling, pretty flat. Bourbon barrel porter kit...

The situation: I have a small batch of IPA I'm going to bottle tomorrow. I have a gallon of relatively fresh unfiltered apple juice from the farmer's market in the fridge. I want to make a cider, but I'm also lazy and have no more packets of yeast on hand. The question: If I aerated the...

I received my first shipment of ingredients last week, nothing substantial but 1 pound packages of a dozen different whole grains and a couple 3lb packages of DME. Later for bulk grains I plan on using some kind of stackable plastic bins when I start buying in bulk, but only very specific...

Brewing has been going great! I'm so glad I made room for some small fermenters and was able to successfully get sufficient volume boils to do some small batches. The downtime between brew and bottle days has gotten me just thinking about where to go next with recipes and general brewing of...

For my first venture into all-grain, I thought I would do two things: 1) keep it simple 2) use some ingredients I have on hand already 3) not follow any recipe to the T, but do something kinda like an American Wheat beer. I don't really know what this beer will turn out like, but I can't...

Happy weekend homebrewers! Great news - I have my first batch fermenting after a few years away from the hobby. This has me planning out the next handful of brews - the goal is to brew a small batch every week or two to get some more recipes and techniques under my belt quickly. My question...

To keep things short: I'm going to be giving all-grain a try. Up until now, using water that was chlorine/chloramine free and tasted great yielded delicious results with extracts/partial grain batches. I've read "How to Brew" and understand that minerals can be an essential part of the...

The title asks it all: Why is clarity a "good thing", and why do people work so hard to make a clearer brew? Beverages I hate clarity in: 1) coffee 2) red wine 3) apple cider (not hard cider) I very much prefer apple cider to apple juice, which typically has been filtered and...

Howdy everybody. It's that time of year where I start thinking about brewing again and really miss having a basement. A few years ago I had some success making 5 gal recipe kits, as well as multiple 5 gal batches of wine. It was good enough to disappear quickly anyways. Space at the place...

Well I've been stalking these forums for a few weeks now and figured it's time to participate :) How I got started: My fiance and I are pretty close to her parents, they're practically parents 2.0 for me and we often spend a weekend or two a month on group projects. We have a garden that we...

*disclaimer - sorry for making my first post a question and not an introduction in the intro forum, I'll get to it soon!* Background: I'm attempting my first homebrew, and have been lurking here for a few weeks. I'm finally at a point that I'd love some feedback and wanted to ask a...