Git cher bru awn!
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Topic: Git cher bru awn!
Posted By: tallen702
Subject: Git cher bru awn!
Date Posted: 07 November 2011 at 8:07pm
| Alright, so as everyone here should know, fall/winter is cider/dark beer brewing time. I've got 5 Gallons of local cider pitched with White Labs' WLP775 English Cider Yeast bubbling away quite happily in the computer room. I know some of you home/school-brew, so what do you have working for the winter? |
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 07 November 2011 at 11:15pm
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I think I should finish bottling my amber ale one of these days. When people ask me about it, I tell them that I'm conditioning it, not that I'm just too lazy. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 2:12am
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Waiting on my kit to get here along with the rest of my crap. Should be in by the end of December, I hope. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 6:40am
Why is it going to take that long for it to get to you? Also, for the first time in a long while, the krausen on this batch completely blew through the airlock and all over the floor. Good thing I had some plastic down under the primary fermentation vessel. It surprised me really, I'm not used to ciders being so vigorous. |
evillepaintball wrote:Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 11:00am
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As mentioned before, I am attempting to make cider in my dormitory from scratch. I have two-three liter carbuoys with stoppers and airlocks, and about 9.25 grams of Red Star champagne yeast left. My batch called for about 30 apples worth of juice, 3/4 cup of sugar, and .75 grams of yeast per bottle. My first attempt became disasterous. My suitemate was supposed to bring a blender, but instead brought a bootleg rubbermaid smoothie maker. It turned the apples into apple sauce. I made a ghetto last ditch attempt to press the stuff using two cups and a coffee filter, but I only made about 1/4 of a solo cup before quitting. No way could I press six liters of the stuff using cups and a coffee filter. I will try a legit blender this weekend, otherwise Im quitting. No local farmstands for un-pasteurized cider for me. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 11:47am
Check on local farmer's markets. I used McCutcheon's cider out of Fredrick, MD. You want pasteurized for cider, otherwise you risk wild yeast and bacteria strains ruining your hooch. You just don't want preservatives in it. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 11:59am
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We just finished pressing a few gallons of cider recently, and I've got one gallon in my carboy right now. I use Honey instead of yeast, which makes the fermenting a bit slower. I need to get my hands on another carboy and airlock, because I want to experiment with adding blackberries to the mixture. We got a late start this year, because we had to rebuild our cider press. The old one was yet another flood victim. But we got a TON of apples this year, and still have plenty waiting to be pressed. We could come away with upwards of 10-15 gallons of cider, much of it for drinking, more of it for making hard stuff out of. I attended a 'cider festival' last weekend at a winery in Orange county, and tasted 'one of the top 5 ciders in the country' (that's what the tag said) It was tasty, but most of what you're getting there is too carbonated. I don't much care for the 'sparkling' bit. ------------- ? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 12:04pm
| Reb, take a weekend trip to Red Hook and go here: http://www.partycreations.net/ - Party Creations They've got both glass and plastic brewing sets (carboys and sealed buckets). The plastic is cheaper, shatterproof, and easier to handle, but you can't see what's going on inside. That's what I started with. They also carry all the yeast, etc. that you'll ever need. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 12:19pm
Because It's being shipped from Indiana to Germany...by the government. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 12:39pm
Ahhhhh.... Good ol' APO mail huh? |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 12:43pm
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nah, just my household goods shipment.The movers came and packed everything up and took it away on the 17th of October. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 1:12pm
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Red Hook is not too far from me. I've got to make a trip down in that general direction one night this weekend anyway. After your FB post, I looked into it, and I think we're going to feel the place out. Thanks for the tip. ------------- ? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 1:43pm
They're the ones who taught me everything I know about homebrewing when I was at the CIA. They do apple harvests every fall, do big-group brews, etc. It's a little shop in an outbuilding on their property (at least it was when I was there) but they're really cool people who are more than happy to help people learn the craft. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 2:07pm
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Any advice on how to turn apples into juice without a press? -------------
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 2:37pm
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a juicer? -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 November 2011 at 2:40pm
Also, you can use a food processor. Peel the apples, cut out the core and seeds, and puree the living daylights out of them. Then put the resulting pulp in a cheese cloth or sparging bag over a container to catch the juice, and leave it to sit in the fridge for a couple of days. |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 1:15am
Why does that word sound so dirty? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 09 November 2011 at 1:44am
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I may know of someone with a homebrew kit for sale if you're interested. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |