Recent content by derrabe

I am very new to kegging and I bought 4 used 5gal ball lock kegs and two fo them are fine but two of them I am having issues with the gas stem. The first it seems to hiss like it is leaking when the gas line is hooked up. The same gas line works fine on other kegs no hiss. And when I...

Ok I finally got a kegerator built and am starting to keg instead of bottle. I want to try to back sweeten using (thawed) frozen apple juice concentrate instead of splenda. I am going to bring it down to fridge temperature before adding in the FAJC so fermentation doesn't start back up. The...

Frozen juice concentrate (thawed out)

5 Gallons of regular Musselman's based Cider (done) 5 Gallons of Peach Apple (fermenting) 5 Gallons of Cherry Apple (fermenting) 28 + 15 = 43

Just so I am clear on what your asking, you are going from a 5 gallon to a 6 gallon and after the initial fermentation you have about 4.5 gals of cider. I have only been doing this for a year but from what I have heard on here is especially on the 2nd rack/aging you want as little head space...

Thanks for the advise and that answer will suffice, if there is not another way to go about back sweetening. I was hoping to find a way to do it as I keg it or in the in between step (open to others thoughts on this too still). How do you back sweeten with honey? It is kind of thick so I...

I dont have the space to be able to put the extra kegs in a fridge right now. I have the ability to let it sit at room temperature. I dont mind using honey or concentrate I just have to find a way to kill the yeast first, so I was going to orginally put the 5 gallons on the stove and heat to...

I have been using splenda to back sweeten my ciders up to this point. I dont mind it but I have had a few people say it has that artificial sweetner after taste. I recently built a kegerator and want to know can I pasteurize and then use regular sugar to back sweeten since the kegerator will...

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The Walmart near me had this on clearance for 2 bucks a gallon. I picked up several

Using yeast will not do very much since I use Splenda to back sweeten and it was a little sweet when I back sweetened and bottled but as it aged it became overly sweet.

Ok I brewed and bottled a batch of cider that is way to sweet. I don't want to just dump it out but no body will drink it in my family. So I am looking for options of things to do with it. First option I thought of is use it as headspace filler and just sweeten less then I would like it...

Looked at these but was not sure they would fit a 22oz beer bottle

You didnt miss something, I was looking for something reusable

I recently made some Ice Cider and I bottled it in 22oz bottles since i don't have wine bottles or a corker. I don't plan on drinking a whole bottle in a single sitting so I am looking to find something that I can recap the bottle with so that it can be enjoyed at a few different sittings...