Recent content by caseyweed

I've never used super kleer before. Is it normal to have a bunch of trub on the bottom after adding it? Do I need to rack off of it? I'm at the aging stage now and don't want it to sit for a year and find out I should have racked it off.

Attached is a link to an inexpensive (around $15) carboy/keg pressure washer build I came up with. I looked on here and didn't see anything like it so I thought I would share. Carboy/Keg Pressure Washer Hope this is useful to someone :mug:

I made up a batch of this yesterday following the original recipe. We are unfortunately in our hot stretch this weekend with no ac, I came home from work tonight and the house was 80°! It's in the coolest closet in the house so hopefully things don't go too wrong.

I just did a version of this recipe a couple weeks ago using honey malt, orange Blossom honey and some sweet orange peel. I'm bottling tomorrow, how long did you let it age in the bottle?

divi- I'll look into the chitosan for my next batch, thanks. Rugen - I am fairy new to this, I have made two other small batches before this. I stopped the fermentation on those while they were still sweet with the stove top pasteurizing technique in the sticky. They were still cloudy so I'm...

I did add some Pectic enzyme. I didn't have it during the initial process, so I got some and mixed it in a couple days later. It's been in the mix now for 5 days, but has really had no effect. I think I might just forgo trying to clear this batch as I would like it for new year and shoot for a...

I just racked my batch of cider to a secondary and had a question about cold crashing. I am doing this mainly to get achieve a little more clarity. First, I was just planning on sticking it outside. The temperatures this week will be in the low to mid 40's. Is that even cold enough...