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My father has a small orchard that produces more than our family can use, so I normally take the excess apples and make fresh cider from them, that is how I have done my last few batches. I prefer to use fresh cider to the concentrate if at all possible. I look forward to giving this a try.

thank you for your help, I was actually thinking about using the malt to adjust the PH, I have the equipment through my job to test the alkalinity levels in my water, I just need to remember to take a sample of my water to work. I would imagine I wont have the problem if I brew a darker beer, but I ...

Well my brew day went very well with one exception, I brewed the Hefe from BCS, I followed the spreadsheet to the letter as far as water and grain bill, I hit my O.G right on the money, the only thing that bothers me is after mash in I checked my PH, it only dropped to 6.0 PH, I filtered all my wate...

I was thinking that once the fermentation has started to wind down I could remove the carboy from my temperature controlled area and just leave it at room temp, my home has A/C and we typically keep the temp at around 72 deg. F.

Thank you JackRussel, I will post in the thread that you showed in the future, the only reason I posted twice is because I plan on brewing both of these beers in the next few days and our LHBS is only open at certain hours so I wanted to make sure I had the ingredients for both beers. Thank you agai...

Thank you for the reply, I guess more what I was thinking is do I need to let beer age in the PV after the fermentation has completed or do I go right to packaging. I hate to leave it in the ferment chamber longer than needed as I would like to brew another beer that will need its space.

Beer Storage

After primary fermentation is complete and the young ale is removed from the fermentation chamber where it was held at fermentatin temperature, what is the best temp to store the ale at? is is okay to let it warm up to normal room temperature or should it be kept at a cooler temperature? I have no w...

1 More BCS recipe

Hopeing to get some input into these recipes, I have a large kettle and recently aquired a refrigerator that I have converted to a primary fermentation chamber by adding a STC-1000 controller. Please look at this stout recipe also and see if I am on track or need to modify it to get a good result, I...

BCS recipe

Interested in brewing John Palmers Harold-Is-Weizen recipe from BCS, I have tried to complete the spreadsheet, please everybody take a look at it and see what I am missing. Has anybody tried this recipe? or something close?

I am intrigued by the NC methood, has anybody ever used cubes that contain other things prior. The reason that I ask is I work for a cheese producer and we recieve rennant and cheese coloring in the same type of cube, I just don't know if it is possible to remove all residue from the cubes. What is ...

Raspberry Wheat

Working on planning my next few brews and I have several pounds of large golden raspberry's from my garden that I would like to use to flavor a wheat beer, I have looked on all the beer sights that I can find on how to do this. Some say to add the berries after flame out to sterilize the berries and...

Belgiun white ale

Another question for the group.
I have been looking for infomation on brewing a Belgiun White ale slightly spiced with corriander and orange peel. Have any of you ever made this beer? Did you add the corriander/orange to the boil or to the primary/secondary?

I used a previously used spreadsheet and modified it for my recipe, I didnt notice that it had water held back, my plan is to do a full volume BIAB, but I ended up with to much wort on the last boil, so I would like to see if I can get a bit closer on this next one.

Oatmeal stout

Okay, I am trying to learn the Biabacus spread sheet, I have posted what I want to do for my next brew. Please all take a look at it and tell me where I have gone wrong. Thank you all

First and Second BIAB

Well my second effort at BIAB is now in the primary and the US-05 is working hard on it. I ordered a voile bag for both my 14 gal brew pot and for my keggle. My thoughts are the I will be going electric with the keggle very soon. Brewed in the 14 gal on a turkey cooker worked very well a lot less mo...

Bob, that looks like what I am after, I will most likely try this next, I have never ordered from Northern as we have a local HB shop and his prices are actually quite a bit less than anything I can order online, plus I like to support our local guy as he is a fellow beer lover!

Well this recipe is now in the primary fermenter, I ended up making it using a 3v system as my BIAB bags had not arrived yet, I hit 1.065 OG as it went into the primary, this morning it was in full ferment. Thanks all for the recipe, now I'm looking for a good lighter ale not as hoppy as and IPA wha...

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