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Distilled water has the minerals etc. removed from it and isnt really the best choice for brewing. I would add yeast nutrients if using distilled water but I have found thats not really necessary if using spring or drinking water. As long as water is not distilled it usually has most of what it...

I brewed an IPA kit last year with el dorado hops and I added chinook hops to get a pine flavor like pinedrops beer. It came out pretty good and close to pinedrops. I liked it a lot. Its a good combination. Pine is the flavor out front with a fruity flavor in the background. Really nice in my...

I carbonate in the bottle using apple juice concentrate and then stovetop pasteurize in the bottle ( I sacrifice a few bottles for testing ....trying a bottle every day or two. Once its just right I pasteurize ) .....pretty simple and it comes out great , perfect for a bubbling alcoholic cider...

Ive noticed similar differences. Besides alcohol content you should consider unfermented sugar content as well , your body metabolizes alcohol like sugar....since it is.... but probably at a different rate. Unfermented sugars are bound to have an effect ( slower or faster ) on alcohol...

The batch I made with jasmine rice turned out so good that I see no need to experiment with other types of rice. The guy at the chinese grocery told me jasmine rice wont work ,....boy was he wrong. But I see that its crucial to drink or bottle/pasteurize/cold crash at just the right time if...

I wonder.....if you tried making rice wine in a pumpkin , would the yeast and mold consume the pumpkin ? Or just a little of it and add some pumpkin flavor to the end product. That could be an interesting experiment. My rice wine came out just about perfect , sweet and quite potent. The neutral...

Ive read that natural yeast can make some really good cider , slightly different flavors and such , but every batch will turn out different. There is also a lot more risk of infection or the whole thing turning quickly into vinegar. I never have the time to do it but Ive always wanted to try...

Ok , thanks. I just got some yeast balls today and I will be getting rice soon , I just dont have a good way of steaming it.

Will boiling it ruin it ?

Does it make any difference whether the rice is steamed or boiled ? Anybody know ?

Ive been adding extra DME and it seems to work pretty well without altering the flavor much. But this last time I dumped a bunch of honey in and even though I was a little worried about it making the beer taste dry it actually turned out pretty good and didnt notice a flavor change. But I just...

Interesting. I didnt know that about pear juice. Thanks

Maybe its just me , but every time I add sugar I dont care for the outcome. It usually winds up very dry or acidic. So then after reading on here about using canned apple juice concentrate instead I gave it a try , turns out great. Turns out that the dry or acid...possibly almost "chemical"...

You may not actually see signs of activity in secondary. Sometimes you do and sometimes you dont , unless you stand there staring at it for 12 hours or so. You have to remember the bubbling stopped already in primary , which means the activity has slowed considerably and it "may" not pick back...

Im not an alcoholic , not by a long stretch , but my problem is I never met an alcohol I didnt like :D That being said I do homebrewing for the fun of it , not necessarily just because I like to sample the final results. Cider for me just tastes good and its a nice change now and then...

Most likely. But it is strange that I made a five gallon batch before this one only I didnt add tea or hops , and used the same 3 cans of concentrate for carbonation , yet it took 3 days to get carbonation on that one with no overpressurization. I guess it just shows that even changing the...

Yeah that could be really annoying. You should be able to get in some good sarcasm when he makes those statements.......Hahaha! If he thinks you are somehow less moral for drinking more beers , then own it.......drink two at a time :ban:

He's probably in a position where he is struggling with the difference between what he knows and what he believes. The way you describe the situation I wouldnt be surprised if he has been a closet drinker for years but feels pressure not to admit it......I say that with no negativity toward him...

Temperature plays a big role in how fast the yeast work. The warmer it is the faster it goes , but cooler temperatures and slower fermentation makes better cider. When I make it in the warmer months sometimes there is no movement in the airlock anymore by 5 to 7 days ,....but in the cooler...

I bottled the cider this past week. Flavor going into bottling is good but not yet what I was expecting. The hops is a pain , it was floating on the top and mixed all through the cider. I filtered a few bottles but gave up on it , all the rest still has hops floating around in it , what a pain...