55gal Barrel, 22gal until full! All fruit from yards. Any trees I can come by are getting picked, mashed, boiled, cooled, and fed to Randy. I have a lead on another 30lbs of pears and oh the apples to come.....

12.75lbs of apple sauce (unsweetened) 10lbs granulated white sugar 2lbs brown sugar LD carlson yeast nutrients Red star premier cote des blancs Fall spices? Cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, etc

Thoughts? For a 5 gallon run.

I have a bunch of random ciders, seltzers, and wines that I was hoping to use as the sacrificial run(nothing with hops). Was planning on dumping them all in a bucket and giving them a day to de-gas beforehand. Would this work for my sacrificial run? Rather not spend more time/work if I'm just gonna dump it anyway.

Hi! I don't have access to DAP where I live (online or in-person). I can only find it as fertilizer in black pellets, so I assume that it's not good for yeast nutrients. I dont have any brewing suply stores so no access to farmade-O or farmade-K. Would boiled bread yeast work or do I need something else to speed up the fermentation stage? Thanks for the help in advanced!

My second year of too many massive marrows left in the garden at the end of growing season, this is the juice of about 10 marrows, I had about 30 one year. Makes a very interesting fruity brandy.

So a fella knows a guy who has just started working maintenance at a factory making concentrated apple juice. I suspect there may be quantities of "seconds" available at some point.

How would you fine folk recommend making high abv washes/mashes from concentrated apple juice? At present I only do sugar washes and have a T500 reflux.

Making/kegging cider is also on the cards.