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American English Pale Ale

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Yep! five gallon of apple cider, 5 lbs sugar, 1lb raisin's and one chunk of brewers yeast. 30 days or no bubbles and you have one kick ass drink!!!:thumbsup:
 

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That is my friends carboy, we brewed that on Saturday. We will be brewing in mine on Sunday.

Josh, still yeast floating around in there
 

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Right on!

The first time I tried homebrew I had one of these:

Fathers' day gift from my sisters. Wasn't too bad. It made 3 3-liters of beer that after enough sugar during priming got you pretty buzzed.
 

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Right on!

The first time I tried homebrew I had one of these:

Fathers' day gift from my sisters. Wasn't too bad. It made 3 3-liters of beer that after enough sugar during priming got you pretty buzzed.
:rofl:

That's funny
 
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Are you doing this in just the one jug? I start mine in, I think, a 7.5 gal carboy to handle all of the foam and then after the bubbles slow after a few days to a week move to a 6 gal carboy. This helps to make the final brew a little clearer. You just have to be careful not to introduce any air into the wort/beer when transferring.

Looks good and I bet that it smells wonderful!
 

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That is a 6.5 gal for the first fermentation. The ABV should end up around 6.9%, woops, we underestimated the amount of boil off as we were using a new burner so we ended up a bit short.
 
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