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Just in time for thanksgiving, cranberry cider. 25% cranberry concentrate and 75% apple juice (just Costco Kirkland organic juice). D-47 yeast, fermaid K, and pectic enzyme, along with some dextrose (3.5 oz, off the top of my head, without referencing my brewing notebook). Bulk-aged one year...

I've been bottling ever since I've started home brewing, and will eventually switch to kegging, but not quite yet... That being said, I'm thinking my next upgrade to my process/system will be a CO2 tank, to use (only, initially) for blanketing carboys and bottling buckets when transferring to...

Hey all, I'm traveling to Stockholm, Trondheim, Bergen, and Oslo in the next couple weeks... Any must-have local beers I should try while I'm there? Some long-lost cousins brew their own beer at a place called Teveltunet, where we're staying for a few days (east of Trondheim near the Swedish...

I'm brewing my first lambic tomorrow, and am planning on pitching both WLP001 and 655 (Belgian Sour Mix 1 - the number is off top of my head, could be wrong) at the same time for primary fermentation, along with dregs from a bottle of Monks Cafe Flemish Red. The 001 is harvested from January...

Hey everyone, was wondering if you'd critique my new recipe for a gingerbread brown ale... I am shooting for a mid-strength English brown ale, with a holiday spice (gingerbread, in particular) flavor. For inspiration, I'm using Randy Mosher's suggestion from "Radical Brewing" to use a...

Hey all - My in-laws were nice enough to give me a five gallon stout kit (extract) for Christmas, and I was thinking of brewing it up per the directions (well, modified with what I've learned about "lowest common denominator" directions that come with kits - so maybe it'd be better to say "per...

Wanting to try to make some perry... everything I've been reading seems to say that if you ferment just straight pear juice you end up with something that's not very sweet or tasty (but if someone thinks otherwise, please chime in with what/how you did so this wasn't the case). So I'm thinking...

Hey all, My next batch will be my first all-grain brew (a Simcoe hop-bursted APA, BIAB), and have been reading up about water chemistry. I have always used RO from the store (at $0.27/gal from the machine) for my extract and PM beers, and want to continue using it for all-grain. I just figure...

Been been doing mini-mashes on my last few (5 gal) brews, and realized that although I don't have the equipment or capacity to make the jump to all-grain, full volume boils for 5 gal batches, if I go BIAB and half-sized (2.5-3 gal) batches, I can easily make the transition to all-grain and full...

This is one of the first recipes I came up with myself. I only did it as a one gallon batch, in case it didn't turn out that well... Now I wish I would have made more - it's excellent! It's not a Pilsner Urquell clone, but as the epitome of the style, we did a side-by-side comparison after it...

I have 3 oz Simcoe pellets and want to make an American Pale Ale with them. Just wondering what everyone's experience with Simcoe has been... I've enjoyed the PA/IPA/IIPAs I've had with Simcoe in them, but don't think any had ONLY Simcoe. Have any of you done a SMaSH or just Simcoe hopped pale...

I have 3 oz Simcoe pellets and want to make an American Pale Ale with them. Just wondering what everyone's experience with Simcoe has been... I've enjoyed the PA/IPA/IIPAs I've had with Somcoe in them, but don't think any had ONLY Simcoe. Have any of you done a SMaSH or just Simcoe hopped pale...

[Hi all - I posted this post below in the software section of the forum, but it seems that part doesn't get much traffic, as I've yet to have a response... So I'm reposting it here too, as I'm still a newbie and new to any software! Please give any advice and recommendations - thanks!] I've...

I've been using brewersfriend.com for recipe formulation and tweaking so far, and do like that site/software. But I'm looking for something that I can use without having to be online (I travel for work and want to be able to use it on a plane or in a hotel or airport that doesn't have free...

Okay, I'm still pretty new at this brewing thing, but have been learning a bunch, improving my techniques, and even brewed my own first couple of recipes (last two). Now I'm looking to see what I should do/buy/build next... Here's the down and dirty of my first six months of brewing: I've...

Hello HBT faithful - I'm attempting my first recipe on my own (well, based off of other's and the BJCP guidelines, of course!), and would like some feedback/advice, please. I recently built a fermentation chamber (chest freezer with STC-1000 and paint can heater), and would like to take...

This gallon of cider was started 4/6, racked to secondary on 5/8, and just within the last week has developed this whitish filmy stuff on the top. Hoping one of you has seen something similar and can give me some info. This is my first batch that I've left age this long (had more recent ones...

I posted this in the cider forum, but got no responses... The general math applies to beer, too, so maybe one of you can chime in... Thanks!

Did a quick search, but either nothing specific came up, or too specific (math I am too tired to try to comprehend right now). So my question is this: how do you adjust gravity when combining volumes of different gravity? Here's my example: I am making one gallon batches of cider (upstate...