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Hello, I'm planning on making some cider this year. I have done this a couple of times before but always drank it within a couple of weeks. This time I want something a slightly higher quality that I could share with friends in the summer. My main issue is that I live in an apartment with poor...

That’s exactly what I tried with my first batch, except without the pear, but it tasted really bad. I assume something must’ve got in at some point when I was adding the extra juice or taking the hydrometer reading.

Hi there. I made my first cider a little while ago. It was really nice dry, in fact I was surprised how nice, but I tried back sweetening it and I think I might’ve got a bit sloppy because it turned out tasting sour and yeasty. Anyway I’ve decided i’d prefer to make a simple dry cider this time...

Hi, i’m currently making my first cider. I’ve used apple juice and Young’s cider yeast and it’s almost fully fermented but I have a couple of really amateur questions about my next steps. I’m planning on adding a little apple juice to sweeten my cider and using potassium sorbate and sodium...

Hi all. Due to the current situation meaning a lack of supplies I have decided to try making a cider. Just to practice i’ve started with a simple apple juice and cider yeast but I am going to try adding some fruit (i’ll probably start with peaches) and maybe sweetening my next batch and I have...

I have electric hobs so i’m worried about how much they will take. I’ll look into it properly when i come to do an extract brew. They also take forever to cool down unlike the gas ones where you can just turn the gas of. Perhaps if I had two on, one ready at a lower heat just incase it starts to...

As luck would have it my girlfriend has just bought a pair of tights that instantly laddered and was about to throw away. I suppose if I steralise them it could be worth a try. A syphon with a sediment trap is definitely on my to buy list for next time. Thanks!

I really don’t have much equipment available at the moment and no large saucepans. I do plan on investing over the coming months but that will probably be one item at a time. Sorry for the newbie question but I thought my starter kit was extract brewing as it uses malt extract? AG is something...

Thanks for all the info. That's made me a bit clearer now. I've seen a lot of people mention gelatine for clearing beer. Is that worth looking into? I'm just worried about the "suck back" if I cold crash and this being my first brew I want to limit what could go wrong. I might leave that out...

Hi there. So I feel like I've been reasonably successful with my first brew so far (a starter kit American Pale Ale), by which I mean nothing appears to have gone disastrously wrong and I'd like to keep it that way. I've decided I want to bottle my beer but I'd never really paid attention to the...

Thanks for the replies, the kit I got came with some hops which it says to add towards the end of the process so i'll probably do that tonight. I'll have a look into those books, there are so many out there it's good to get a recommendation. I'm still at the point where I'm learning the...

Good afternoon, I'm a newbie. I have recently been brewing my first beer from an American Pale Ale starter kit. Over the last couple of weeks I've been imagining all the ways I might have gone wrong but to my surprise when I took a gravity reading the other day and tasted the sample, it tasted...