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day_trippr and PlinyTheMiddleAged, thank you thank you thank you. That is great to know.

Thanks, Maylar. I'm filtering through a plate filter late this week to a brite tank. That's 10 weeks in primary and secondary. So far, so good. Kegging in another 10 days. I went for a dry farmhouse blend using 20% crab apple juice on top of the base juice. I'm using Petainer kegs. Pretty...

Hello, I usually stick my cider in a corny keg, chill it to 35f, blast it with 20 PSI for a couple weeks and everyone's happy. But now I have to stick to a max of 0.64g CO2 / 100ml to meet federal cider laws. Can anyone here translate that to the good old fashioned carbonation chart like...

Here is a link to the keg details. http://dolium.eu/product-details/dolium-pet-keg-30-litre-slimline/1001 I'm going with this brand as there is a local distributor with free shipping. When you say, "After a year he was selling them all" do you mean he was selling them empty as he didn't...

Hello all. I said I'd give an update. I currently have 250 gallons of juice bubbling away over at the winery. It's a crab apple blend. MarkKF, starting with just a dry at first but I am going to do sparkling, just my own preference to drink. bmd2k1, thanks for the support. I am going to keg...

I'm just about to start my first commercial batch in January working a custom crush agreement with a local winery. It was so near the end of the year when the local authority gave me permission I thought I'd push it out a little to avoid paying the fee for 2017 AND 2018. Starting very small and...

Oh Christ, this whole brite tank pressurization business looks like it's a whole new area to learn. I'm about to carb my first batch in a brite. Anxiety rising. Any good reading materials you can recommend?

MaxStout got it. Bend it is. Those mountains are, in fact, the Cascades. Well done, sir.

Yes and Yes.

Hi madscientist451, Thanks for your comments. I usually take 8 weeks from pitching to bottling, then 2-3 weeks to carbonate. I think it tastes pretty fine after that. A lot of that time is spent waiting for the yeast to settle out. I guess the main thing I'm wondering about is if filtering...

I agree wholeheartedly, but I'm renting winery space and bonded warehouse space and leaving it to sit for a year just would increase the costs beyond any kind of profit. I'm just doing dry, no sweetener. Without filtering I find 3 months makes a nice dry cider for my tastes, and I'm hoping...

Hello everyone. I'm about to get my commercial license to start making cider for reals and was wondering, if you do this commercially, how long do you leave your dry cider for? I was thinking: 2 weeks fermentation 4 weeks in secondary Filter to brite 10 days in brite Canned and...

OK, let's try this one out for size. A simple one. Big beer town.

Very cool. So do I get to post the next skyline?

Ha. Sligo. My old haunt. I'm from just up the road before I moved out West (where they'll appreciate me!). Thanks for the memories, MaxStout.

Hello, Does anyone have any experience fermenting in a IBC tote? if so, how did you make a bubbler for the fermentation process? I hear that these lids (pictured below) work great but have no idea what to do with them when they arrive. Do those white caps come out and then you plug the...

It's Berlin.

6 gallons in primary. 291.5

Yeah, casualbrewer, all sealed off. I tried again last night. It's at the stage where it is foamy rather than bubbly.

Advice needed badly here folks ... So, I'm a runner, and they say you should never try anything new during a marathon - stick with your old shoes, nutrition intake, shorts, etc. Well, the same applies to making cider for a family wedding. To recap, i decided to bottle condition a dry and a...