river

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I'm very new at this! I have a lot of mead and cider brewing up right now I'm letting my cider go for tow weeks and then another tow weeks until its still .my question is if I use pasteurized apple juice do I still need to pasterize it when its don and if so I don't know the first thing about doing that and when making flower mead do flowers have willed yeast ?

Pickled_Pepper

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JUICE is pasteurized to kill any wild yeasts and nasties. when CIDER is pasteurized post-fermentation it is to kill the yeast you added so that it will not over carbonate and leave you with a sweet/carbonated cider. There is a sticky explaining bottle pasteurization at the top of the cider thread.

kewlio250

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i would pasteurize everything that isnt already, like flowers

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river

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Thank you , I started a galon of green tea ginger lemon lime a week ago I boiled it for a 1/2 hr and simmer it for about 45 min I didnt have a thermometer I hope it would have been good enough to kill anything bad . I took a look at it this morning and its bubbling nice but there is a lot of brown stuff on the neck going up into the airlock none of my others have something like that going on what should I do ?

kewlio250

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replace airlock with blow off tube

http://www.brewing-tips.com/airlocks-and-blowoff-tubes/

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