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It was a few years ago now that Jon at Hops n’ Things put us on track to brew our first big batch of cider. Knowledge comes from books, but a guy like Jon can give you know-how. Today he introduced us to Distillers’ Active Dry Yeast, or DADY. Our last batch of cider went to 30 proof with Epernay champaign yeast, DADY might get us to 50 proof! More importantly, he was kind enough to help us fix a CO2 leak in our keg system — and he stayed open late to get it done.

After months of lost time, RedstoneBrewery.com is finally online. There’s not much there, but you wait baby. You just wait and see.

Or. Um. Well, we’ll see what happens there next.

This little ‘zine just scored distribution with Borders book stores. But if you can’t find it there, take a look at Modern Drunkard Magazine online.

Take a look at their Wino Wisdom section where you’ll find gems like “The secret of being a good drunk is not to try to hard. To me, it just comes naturally. You might even say it’s effortless.” And “I don’t smoke filtered cigarettes for the same reason I don’t drink whiskey through a bar rag.”

Brewing cider takes a long time.

…and most of it is just waiting.

So while we wait, I draw up new labels. Click for

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How does Betty Sue stay so happy? That’s her little secret.

Between Classes, and while baking cookies,

Betty Sue enjoys a quick nip of liquor.

It’s not a habit, but it is what keeps that smile on her face.

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that have been plastering smiles on faces everywhere.

In the fall of 2000 Cliff convinced me that I needed to brew hard cider. In turn, I convinced him that we needed to brew lots of it. We soon bought barrels that had been used for Cherry Coke concentrate and found an orchard that would sell us bulk sweet cider. After siphoning the 120 gallons from two barrels in my truck into two barrels prepared in my basement, adding sugar and other flavors, and pitching the yeast, we waited.

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It’s actually fairly easy to forget about 120 gallons of cider your basement. We almost never went down there, and it didn’t really need much thought. But, now and then we’d remember. Friends would become scared when we told them of it, and those who knew a thing or two about yeasts and alcohol grew scareder when they learned of what yeast we used, and how much sugar we added.

Eventually the bubbling stopped, the cider cleared, and it was time to bottle. The results were good, and best of all, they were powerful. My barrel tested out at 30 Proof, and I promptly named it Confidence Builder™. I mixed it 50-50 with sweet apple juice to make Her Little Secret™ so that we could enjoy it (at 15 Proof) more often.