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Reporting success! I used organic apple peels to introduce a wild yeast into the cider. I bought 4 apples and used one from the orchard that pressed the cider. No visible activity for the first three days then on the fourth day visible bubbles in the surface. One day later it is quite active.

Thanks Z-Bob. Unfortunately, where I live (Charleston, SC) there are very few fruit trees. I have not seen any so have resorted to buying organic apples, peeling them, and putting the peels in the carboy. Hopefully that works. I’ll know in a few days.

Thanks. After doing more research I ended up buying 4 organic apples and put the peels from those and one from the orchard in one of the three batches. Hopefully that will be productive.

Looking for input. I just got three, three gallon carboys filled with fresh pressed cider from Windy Hills Orchard in SC. I was planning to let one carboy ferment naturally with the wild yeast from the apples and planned to use SafCider AB-1 Yeast for the other two. But, I learned when getting...