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    Strange aroma in all my ciders.

    I've brewed around 10 batches of cider. Everything from Saison yeast to Cider yeast. All with store bought 100% apple juice. They mostly come out with a great taste (the one im drinking now was made with a Saison yeast and Belgium candi syrup!) but they all have this sort of alcohol aroma. Once...
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    Adding gelatin

    Without thinking it through, I added Gelatin to my Cider before fermentation even started. I have never used it before and the directions just said to add "1 tsp per 6 gallons of must". So, I dumped it right in after dissolving in boiling water and cooling for one hour, and at the same time I...
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    Fermentation done with no Airlock activity?

    Whats up gang! I did two 3 gallon batches of cider, using two different yeast strains and I saw something Ive never seen before when making cider (about 10 batches in). BOTH showed no activity in the airlock, after a week I decided to just open them up and get a reading. Turns out they...
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    Converting Igloo Cooler to Mash Tun Questions

    I came across a free 5 gallon IGLOO orange round cooler for free. Just in time for my switch to all-grain. I plan on buying a 10 gallon rubbermaid next week to mash and plan on using this free cooler as a HLT. I searched online for a conversion parts list and was obviously really successful...
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    Ordered the Surly Cynic Kit from NB. Extra Hops, what to do?!

    The recipes calls for 0.25 oz. of Columbus for 60 min. But they sent me a whole ounce of em. Because I have a Black IPA in secondary that I plan on dry hopping tomorrow, could I use the extra columbus to dry hop? Im a big fan of hoppy IPA's and most black IPA's vie had aren't hoppy enough...
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    Odd smell in finished beer.

    So im drinking my second batch of homebrew, a brown ale. my first was a pale ale. They both taste awesome but have a light "rotten egg" kinda smell going on. One was bottle conditioned and the second was force carbed in a keg. What can this be? I used distilled water on both (both were...
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    New Brewer, fermentation help!

    I brewed my first batch of beer January 1st, a Extra Pale Ale extract kit from Northern Brewer. Its fermenting great (lots of activity after only 18 hours or so) and continues. My only concern is because i live in south florida, and 83 degree weather in january is normal (depressing.)...
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