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So I bottled my first batches of cider last night -- 7 single-gallon batches. Since I had AJC on-hand and had done some experimentation previously, I decided to prime with it. I was shooting to add .006 points of SG to each batch, thinking for some reason that that was optimal for bottling in...

So after trying AO's "Iceman", I learned about ice ciders. Seems like a neat concept, and since I've got kind of a crummy sense of smell (and thus taste), I like the idea of a more flavorful cider. While I'm not averse to concentrating manually, I do have to wonder if there's a good reason not...

My other thread isn't getting a whole lot of traffic, probably because the latest issue is buried under my initial fears, and I suspect this is a time-sensitive matter that I've let go about as long as I can afford, so hopefully this one will do better. If it's bad form to split a thread like...

I was hoping to avoid this, as the question of "Is my mead broken?" seems to be a very common one with slow starts and new mead makers, but it looks like it wasn't meant to be. Roughly 68 hours ago, I pitched my first batch of mead. It's been sitting in a cool area (currently about 64F) since...