Recent content by Robert_Paulson

Awesome. Thank you for the information. I'll start shopping around for some equipment. One other question. The tap seems frozen or impossible to pull. Is it possible that I'm doing something wrong or should I look into buying a new tap also?

Hi All, I bought a used kegerator at a yard sale today and I'm not really sure what else I need before I can put beer in it. I know I need a keg, and according to the little bit of research I have done, I think I might need some kind of gas line too. Here are all the pictures of the...

OG= 1.054 FG= 1.005 Yeast= Cider yeast (I forget which one specifically at the moment) from LHBS I'm not sure of the gravity after I added the sugar. At the point that I added the sorbate and campden though, it had been fermenting for a little over 3 weeks and had seemed to stop. I added...

Okay, that is great to hear. I'll check on it when I get home from work and see if any further fermentation has taken place. I'll just keep racking off the lees it until it stops for good. Thanks for the help.

I'm making a couple gallons of still cider, all of which will be backsweetened with a lot of sugar. Yesterday I racked to a secondary and added both campden and potassium sorbate. I have been looking around on the forums and it seems that there is some discrepancy as to whether this...

Alright cool, I'll give that a try.

Oh okay. That makes sense now. And thanks for the info on non-fermentables.

Do you backsweeten with artificial sugar? I guess I'm not understanding why you would need to both backsweeten and add corn sugar to get carbonation. Also how do you see any carbonation at all if you have already added the sorbate to stop the yeast from eating your sugar that you're using to...

Hmmm. Okay thanks for the info. Next time I'll try adding some extract or syrup. I actually have a batch of 50% apple and 50% cranberry juice fermenting right now, so we'll see how that turns out. I'm considering adding some cranberries to the secondary. Any suggestions as to whether that is a...

Okay so I just gave my ciders a try and I was a little disappointed with the blueberry. I boiled the blueberries on the stove with sugar and water, added them to 1 gallon of cider, and let it sit in the secondary for a while. However, I really had no blueberry flavor in the finished cider. It...

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Two more questions though. Should I add more pectic enzyme if I plan on adding more fruit to the secondary? Or will the pectic enzyme from the primary be enough? Also, when was talking to the guy at my LHBS he said something about the "fruit flavors escaping...

Okay, so right now I have three gallons of hard cider that is undergoing primary fermentation in a three gallon carboy. My question is related to adding flavors to the cider. I want to make some of these three gallons fruit flavored, some cinnamon flavored, and some just plain cider. Once my...

Hello everybody! I am a semi first-time brewer, having made 2 batches of beer from a Mr.Beer kit in the past (only one of which turned out to be drinkable). Today I just started a 3 gallon batch of hard cider after picking up some supplies from a local homebrew store. So far I have been...