How long should it take to clear? From the original post date the dark line hasn’t really moved. Smells really good but the top has a white speckled film on top. At this point I have given up on the no additives and think we might add Camden to be safe.
The second smaller test bottle that was...
We have added nothing. It’s 100% apples. No yeast, no sugar, no camden. Sanitized everything with Starsan. I have a separate gallon I added some raw honey from our friends bees to back sweeten just as an experiment. We are still trying to decide how to back sweeten but the goal was to have a...
I’ve attached a photo which might help, this carboy is a blueish glass. Before we put it in the secondary the cider was a light golden color close to the color of a store cider or Chardonnay when we did a sample glass.
Hi all,
Just transferred our wild cider from a 6 gallon into a second 5 gallon carboy after it finished bubbling. No added sugar or yeast just two different apples from our own trees. It started out in the average range for an apple juice sugar wise and after about 4 weeks of activity finished...