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yield: 24 liters final abv: 18.6% taste: freaking wonderful! I followed my plan with timing but only backsweetened with 1lb of dark brown sugar. Its bottled and being consumed. At the tasting last night, all 9 people absolutely raved about it and think its a sweet, mellow and refreshing...

As my confidence is growing that my "hard cider" experiment will turn out great...my wife has asked that I start to consider a hard lemonade as my next brew. Ever hear of leinenkugel's summer shandy...well, I think its damn disgusting. we obviously prefer something like Mike's Hard Lemonade...

update as of 10/17/11 I waited 2 extra days to rack to secondary because as of 10/15, the airlock was still quite active. took a SG reading today and it was 1.004. I took a taste test and compared it to the sample from last week. The best words are sharper and drier. The sweetness it has...

i appreciate all the advice so far....but i really think everyone is overreacting about bottle bombs. 1) there is enough sugar to reach 24% alcohol in the fermenter so it should overwhelm the yeast. if it ferments to the 18% tolerance of the yeast, the yeast won't survive. 2) After racked to...

yes, i am the in US....New York City in fact. dextrose was added initially as, since it is a monosaccharide, it would require not much effort to be broken down by the yeast. everyone i talked to recommended it over sucrose (what we call raw sugar or table sugar) because that is a disaccharide...

@kudapucat I don't intend on adding any vodka to my cider when done. what's the point....i could have just added vodka to a bottle of apple juice then and "called" it cider. the point is to brew it up as "hard" as possible. also, the turbo yeast you are talking about (many brands offer 18-23%...

@ going down hill it is not that if this doesn't work i won't brew again. i just won't invest more money in equipment (like glass fermenters, an aquarium heater, a z-carbon filter if necessary, proper siphons/bottling apparatuses and reusable storage bottles). For now, I am using stuff I had...

I don't think so. I will clear the yeast with bentonite or Super Kleer and add potassium sorbate which will stop fermentation. There will be no, or at least extremely minimal activity in the bottles....i hope. Am I wrong that clearing and adding potassium sorbate will do the trick. I can...

I am trying my first homebrew ever and decided to start with a simple recipe for hard cider, but as I go big or go home, I want to push the alcohol content far above the usual cider ABV. If this works out well using the equipment I have on hand, I will invest in better equipment and specialty...

hello everyone- i'm kurt. i came across this forum from an advert on youtube (a canadian named craig with his home brew videos) i have been interested in brewing for some time, and have toyed with the idea of starting with anything from hard cider up to beer kits or even just going for home...