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So I bought I bag of hops candy and something ticked in my head. Hey what if I primed with this? You'd get hops and carbonation. I was thinking about doing it with a bottle or two and report back. Has anyone experienced this? Also to make sure it disolves better should I crush it up?

Included is the picture of both my carboys. I wanted to bottle the cran apple one but it seems like it may not be ready. There are still coming to the top as you can see and based on the position of both air locks (for you) and I can still see bubbles coming every 10-15 seconds or so, it's still...

I will be bottling my cran/app cider back sweetening with cran and app concentrate and carbing them with it! I am so stoked!

Ok so I had five ish gallons of cider brewing and 2 -3 Gallon carboys. Well you can do the maths with you know losing some to Lees to know that I would have 1 full and 1 about half way full. Well I added cranberry concentrate to it and the splashing that I could not avoid due to head space plus...

I was thinking that there is a lot of ideas about how much of certain ingredients there to Backsweetening and to carb so I was hoping to start a sticky or at least useful thread about it as I, as well as other beginners, would benefit from this information. I look at recipes and a lot of the...

I am interested in making rice wine and it calls for sweet rice, right? Well, I don't have a steamer, double boiler or funds to buy any extra equipment for it. I was wondering, A) Can I cook it like I would cook basmati as in rinse/soak and simmer it? B) If I wanted to do bulk 3+ gallons can...

Yo yo yo! I am TheNewGuy2 (name won't stick forever sadly HAHA). I have been lurking for what seems to be an eternity! Mainly in the cider/mead area forums! I do believe that is my main interest in the hobby, maybe sake down the road! Anywho, I am from Wiscansin (we don't actually say it like...

Hey, I'm TheNewGuy2 and I just joined! Have many questions some have been answered by months of lurking. Thanks for having me as well! To the question, I have 3 gallons of cider in my secondary fermenter. I used EC-1116 yeast, and fermentEd dry. I want to Backsweetening it though because...