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I'd like to show a picture, but this stuff in the neck of my carboy is so clear that it doesn't show up in pictures. The only way you can even tell, is that the tiny bubbles in it aren't moving. Recipe: one package Brewer's Best Premium Cider Yeast and pasteurized cider from the farmers market...

Or just someone to tell me 10 grams of sugar raise the gravity per gallon. I want to add strawberries in the secondary to a crappy store bought apple juice I'm attempting a drinkable cider from. Already have plans for tannin and acid blend to save this toilet water.

Okay cider gurus, I have a question. I've made a cider apple connection that is 1200 miles away. The problem is that fresh apples weigh a ton, are perishisable and so is just the juice. How about if he dehydrates them, and I use store bought juice and just add the dehydrated cider apples in...

This is mine from a few years back. I hate starting over after losing everything, but at least I have the experience under my belt. Happy to be back in my addiction :) https://photos.app.goo.gl/kNKCpQ1YoEsIvp6I2

So after finding a plethora of info of seemingly every yeast except this one, I decided it was high time to start a thread. It seems the little information I could find was all good, albeit dated in most cases. I was curious after purchasing a 3 pack off of Amazon, why more hasn't been said...

After a very near 3 year hiatus do to RL and the loss of ALL of my supplies and tools, I'm finally baby stepping back into my addiction. On a whim, I stopped by my LHBS and acquired a one gallon glass jug, an airlock and a packet of EC-1118 (mistake, I just thought I recalled that being a good...

Long story short, I made a carbon filter to smooth out my apple jack. Well, seems I forgot to pre-rinse it first so now my jack has a greenish hue from the carbon particles. Has anyone ever tried flavored Jello to clarify? I font mind the flavoring in the jack because quite frankly, it has not a...

Acceptance is the first step. Now onto a solution to my problem. I maaaayyyy have overfilled my 12 ounce beer bottles with primed cider and they have been sitting for 5 days. Do I need to take some out of each one and recap or pastuerize and cross my fingers?

I am starting this thread after a few people posted on another thread a good deal at a supermarket ( Aldi's has n/a pumpkin cider in flip top bottles for $2). I felt this would make a good running thread where we can keep each other in the loop.

Met a guy this evening that has never in 20 years pasteurized his bottles and never had a bottle bomb. He claims to use the standard 1 ounce per gallon of dextrose. When I looked at him inquisitively, he simply stated "people didn't pasteurize for thousands of years"........ touche' my friend...

I hate waste, so against my better judgement I pitched some turbo yeast into 2 gallons of apple juice, 6 cans of FCAJ, 2 cups brown sugar and 6 cups of table sugar. I ended up with an OG of 1.120. I had used this yeast once before in some berry juice I got on clearance and the final product...

First time naturally carbing. I tried to search the forums and got a whole lot of reading accomplished with no real answers. I cold crashed my cider when it was just where the swmbo liked it. Now I want to carb it in a sampler 16 ounce grolsch bottle so I don't ruin a whole 3 gallons. The FG is...

Has anyone nailed the recipe yet? My swmbo is pretty picky and I'm getting sick of drinking cider trying to replicate it :tank:

Can someone confirm that I am not ruining two batches ? Top brown layer (first batch): 3 gallons AJ, Safale S-04, 3 cups sugar and 1/2 cup simmered,mashed & strained raisins. OG of 1.095 cold crashed early for a sweet weak wine for the swmbo. Lower white layer (current batch): 3 gallons...

I am on a limited budget right now so I have been beating my head against a wall on how to reuse my one gallon plastic jugs. Then it hit me, I just did a project with my daughter for school on water filtration. At the second stage after filtering we simply put the water in PET bottles and used...

This little gem as a result of the misses being none too thrilled of her walk-in closet being turned into a makeshift wine cellar. A 10 minute project using only some polyester batting, activated charcoal, an old medicine bottle and a hot glue gun. A drill comes in handy also :D

Hello from middle Georgia ! Been scanning the forums for awhile and finally signed up. I ran across a youtube video on how to make "inmate brew" with apple juice and before it was done fermenting I had spend countless hours doing homework and had started a 2 gallon of mixed berry and then a MUCH...