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wetzie · 11-05-2011, 11:13 PM

I am on day two and the rhino farts are really bad. I hope this meeans this stuff will be great.

Exbeerienced · 11-06-2011, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by verboten

Hah...nice

On that note everyone loves the apfelwein

But now I'm reading about rhino farts. THAT wasn't in the recipe on page one. I'd better actually read these 8000+ posts. Too risky not to. (Sucks being one of the new guys.)

jgerard · 11-06-2011, 03:07 AM

Just made my first batch of apfelwein! 6 cans of frozen applejuice concentrate, 2/3 cups of brown sugar, and 12 oz honey. Made about 2.5 gallons, hopefully I didn't water it down too much I think the recipe was for 2gallons.

I'm planning on carbonating it all, do I use the same amount of sugar I would for beer? I'm glad I finally learned about apfelwein, might get a few 1 gallon batches goin whyh I'm waitin for this batch!

SteveHoward · 11-06-2011, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Exbeerienced

But now I'm reading about rhino farts. THAT wasn't in the recipe on page one. I'd better actually read these 8000+ posts. Too risky not to. (Sucks being one of the new guys.)

Just look on the page immediately prior to this one. I peroused many of the other pages and found what worked well to not have rhino farts.

Pennachi · 11-06-2011, 05:01 AM

I started mine in a 6.25 gallon demijohn tonight, 6 gallons of Kirkland signature Apple juice from Costco, 3 pounds of dark brown sugar, and Montrachet yeast, topped off with bottled water. It has been over 8 hours and I have not seen any airlock activity, should I be concerned yet? The three mead batches I started are all bubbling nicely...

**smagee** · 11-06-2011, 05:48 AM

Fermentation can take upwards of 72 hours to kick in. At the very least, I'd not worry until 24-30ish hours in.

Pennachi · 11-06-2011, 10:46 AM

Ok... Ill keep an eye on it

Pennachi · 11-06-2011, 12:11 PM

Update: it is starting to work! I get a bubble through the airlock every three minutes or so right now

mistercameron · 11-06-2011, 02:24 PM

I made this recipe with TreeTop and Safale s05. At about 3 weeks in, the fermentation is still minimal but steady the whole time... Much different than I was expecting from my beer experiences.

SteveHoward · 11-06-2011, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mistercameron

I made this recipe with TreeTop and Safale s05. At about 3 weeks in, the fermentation is still minimal but steady the whole time... Much different than I was expecting from my beer experiences.

That's interesting. In my case, it fermented MUCH faster than the blackberry wine I had been doing. For the Apfelwein, I got my first bubble through my dual-chamber airlock at about 3 hours. By 12 hours, I was getting a bubble about every 10 minutes. At 24 hours, it was a bubble every 2 minutes, and by 36 hours, I was getting about 3 bubbles/second. It stayed at more than a bubble a second through about 5 days before it really started slowing down.