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Well, I hope so, my last three batches of beer were totally acetic :-(

Hum ... considering that I'll add bottling sugar (I like when it fizzes :P), I guess 'll add the tea at this moment. This way, I'll not add "more" oxygen than I normally would

I made three WOW three weeks ago, and I forgot about the tea. Should I add it now, or go without ?

So you would just put orange juice and cider yeast ? With yeast nutrient, maybe ? How long does it take for this to ferment ?

I cracked one open : not bad but you can taste it needs more time to mature. Also, no bubbles. It seems to be a problem with my brews and I beginning to think the house temperature is the culprit. I'll forget those bottles until summer and we'll see.

I tasted it after 3 week in bottle, primed with 5gr/L : it's not bad, but absolutely no bubbles in sight. Either I kept it in a place too cold, or I did something wrong while priming. Maybe both. Anyway, it has a pleasant taste so I'll leave it as it is : if it need more warmth to carbonate...

Well, I'm not a good example then : I racked it after like 20 days of airlock bubbling, and I can see there is still some pressure building inside the FV after 4 days, like a second fermentation.

Ok, after some try&fail,it appears that if you use only white sugar, the result is not very tasty : acid and taste like yeast. I have better results with those I used sirup for priming, and even better with the one I used sirup for initial fermentation (and white sugar for priming, just for...

I made this one two weeks ago, the airlock doesn't seem to calm down. How long until the first fermentation is finished ? It'll need racking, and I need my FV back :-?

Well, even if you don't know what the numbers mean, you can still use the hydrometer to check that the fermentation process is still going on : take an initial reading and after few days another. If yeast is eating the sugar as it should, the second reading will be lower than the first. Mason...

It has been in FV for a week now. I checked regurlarly and saw a nice foamy top (yeast and lemon) during this week, now there's just some chunk of lemon left up there. It drastically changed taste at mid week, turning from a sweety thing into a real cider-ish beverage, I think it'll turn out ok...

Ah, I used to go to Belle Plagne when I was younger, it's a central place indeed. Too bad they ruined the view with the discutable taste for concrete construction, but skiing in those places stays in my good memories. I'm glad you had good times over there

Don' worry, I did beer and a cider and both weren't bubbling through the airlock, even though the fermentation was perfectly fine. I think you'll see krausen at the top soon. I checked if the tank was airtight by increasing the pressure inside (blowing through the airlock), and after a few...

La plagne is a good station (resort ? I dunno the right word, let's say "place"). In which were you ? Like 1800, village, soleil etc ?

I think the right word is "bland". All the fizz was gone once poured in a glass, and the taste was ... quite uninteresting. My understanding is : bubbles in the bottle and no bubbles in the glass ==> the co2 was present but not disolved in the liquid, so I have to wait a bit longer For the...

I hope you had a good time in France :smile: It's true that we don't have a lot of different beers available in supermarket. Sometimes you can find small markets with a really interesting shelf, but not always. Especially in the mountain, as everything is overpriced in those places. Most os...

This morning I opened the bottle and started a race : zillions of very small bubbles trying to get to the top :thumb: (the same way a commercial soda does when you open it the first time) I'll have a taste this afternoon :pray:

I'm basically using the ginger bug as a yeast to make a soda right now (which is not bubbling yet, btw. Me sad.) Ginger beer may be the next step in this About the yeast : I only have the yeast I collected from my brewferm pilsn kit (the bottom of the first fermentation is used in a test cider...

Aouch. Seemed like a good idea at the time :-? It was between a teaspoon and a tablespoon, I hope it'll be okay ... Anyway ... the main goal is experimentation anyway :)

I've bottling my first brew from a Brewferm Pilsn, collected the yeast and helped it grow in a bit of water with sugar and zinc So i'll give a try to a WOW cider : 6L apple juice 250ml raspberry sirup 3L boiled water 2 lemons (a glass of grapefruit that wasn't asking for anything but was left...