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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    About a week later after I added EC1118. No observable fermentation, no change in gravity. I'm pronouncing it dead and dumping. :(
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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    Update: sodium benzoate is used as a preservative. Would that be an issue? I check the gravity yesterday. Starting gravity was 1.072. Gravity now reads 1.075. So I don't know what the hell is going on. The original Nottingham packet is gone. The second packet reads yeast lot #: 1080486V exp...
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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    I'll take a look tonight and report back
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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    My airlock should be working, my last wine was a rolling bubble for a few days. I'll take a gravity reading tonight before I dump the batch. I was expecting visual fermenting action like wine/beer batches in the past.
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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    Regular Pepin heights apple cider. https://pepinheights.com/cider/nutrition/
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    First Shot at Cider...No fermenting action

    Hi all, I followed nukinfuts29's drunken Emu recipe (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=287701) and started it Sunday. Monday night comes around and there is nothing happening in the carboy. No positive pressure in the S airlock. I realized I added my yeast to the cider/ sugar...
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    First Batch...did I destroy it?

    Looking back at this earlier, I may not have been clear about my questions. I'd like to know if the wine is SAFE to drink? The added spoonfuls of metabisulphate to water with the corks has me worried there may be too high of levels of the meta to be safe to drink?
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    First Batch...did I destroy it?

    Got it, thank you for your help!
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    First Batch...did I destroy it?

    Sodium the same effect as Potassium? Otherwise I will keep that in mind in the future! Thank you
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    First Batch...did I destroy it?

    Made my first batch a month ago, a Winexpert Pinot Grigio Kit. Followed all directions to a T. Except when bottling. I wasn't patient enough with the corks. I couldn't cork my bottles with dry corks, so I saw somewhere I should throw them in a bowl of warm water( medium size mixing bowl)...
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    Pencil sketch..need input please!

    Good lord you can really work a pencil on paper. Well done yet again.
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    Updated Piper's Brew Label

    Is there anyway you can make the bagpipes bigger? For some reason it kind of looks like she's smoking a hookah to me. The crests kind of look like puffs of smoke. But I could just be looking at it in the wrong way and not reading the name on the label. :D
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    New Logo

    Very nice. What program did you use?
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    Test Batch

    Well i don't have any supplies yet. I'm just trying to plan ahead. I guess it would be cheaper in the long run to go ahead and go with the 5 gallon recipe.
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    Test Batch

    Am I right in thinking this or should I just go right ahead for the full 5 gallon brew?
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