19 quarts 100% apple juice
700g honey
10oz brown sugar
18oz turbinado sugar
16oz pure cane sugar
Lalvin 71b-1122 yeast
Og 1.078
Still getting bubbles every 2 seconds.
First three days it sat in my laundry room with the door shut at 70 degrees. Then yesterday removed blowoff and put in sanitized airlock. Getting a wet gym sock / slight bread smell in the closet. Is this normal smell for cider / apfelwein ?
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Honey... I'm just going out for a like an hour. We are only going to drink one or two and head home... I promise ;).
I'd be more concerned about that massive snake in the upper left corner!!!
Is there any sulfur to the smell? or just musty? It could just be because of the jiggling when you moved it. I got a little smell that was musty when I moved one of my cider carboys a couple of weeks ago. It went away pretty quickly.
Getting a slight boiled egg smell. Does this mean it was too warm? Will this mellow over time ?
Lalvin 71b-1122 is good at temps from 60 to 86 degrees, according to documentation that I can find online. It is known for producing some rhino farts, but they will go away... eventually.
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Oh, and get a hydrometer. Psychic brewing is great and all, but hard numbers get rid of MUCH of the guess work.
... If the characters from Jaws did home brewing...
Hooper: "All yeast does is swim and eat sugar and fart carbon dioxide and pee alcohol and make little yeasts."
Brody: "You're gonna need a bigger carboy."
HAHA...I know the feeling (wings and brew)...I just blame it on my 3 year old. (or the dog)
Like they said...sulfur smell is totally normal. It'll usually only last a day or so then the apple smell will come back in the airlock. I'd try to keep that on the low side of the temps if you can. (60s) It'll take longer, but you should get a cleaner fermentation.
First cider in progress. Is this smell normal?
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