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Sounds like I need to make sure the Temps stay low, camden tablets to be safe, and need some Malic acid in there. If using store purchased apple juice, how much malic acid should be placed in 5 gallons of juice?

I brew 5 gallons of cider at a time, and use 1 package of S-04 or whatever yeast. How do I aerate with 02?

I usually heat up a 4 cups of juice in the microwave for 2-3 minutes so its quite hot, not quite boiling when I add the sugar. ( I don't add the yeast until its just luke warm )

I didn't add any water.

I have brewed about 10 ciders now. 9 of the 10 brewed have been pretty good, but they all have some slightly weird initial bite(taste). I don't want to say its a funk taste, but it isn't a super clean or crisp taste. After the first glass you don't notice it as much. And no matter what yeast...

My cider is 6.0%a b v .

My hard apple cider has a bad metallic after taste. Why could this be? My recipe 5 Gallons Kirkland apple juice. Packet Nottingham ale yeas 4 cups came sugar 3 cans frozen concentrate apple juice Let sit on yeast for 12 days, then racked and cold crashed for 4 days. What now?

After fermenting and then racking cider, the cider generally looses the apple taste for a few weeks before it starts to come back. Why is it that the apple taste goes away, and then seems to come back?

Yeast Nutrients? I ususally just use Notty, how much and what brands of Yeast nutrients do you use?

It can be done fermenting in 3 days?

5 Gallons of Costco Pasteruized apple juice, 1 packet Nottingham Yeast, 2 cubs of Cain sugar, 3 cans of Frozen apple juice concentrate. After the first 24 hours the gas bubbles were coming up, and now 3 days later, hardly any activity. What could be going on?

Help please

The hydrometer is showing 1.2 density. Should I continue to let ferment, or cold crash the yeast and bottle. It's been fermenting for 8 days in my garage at 55f.

At this point, what do I do to make it taste like woodchucks?

I am trying to make this taste like Hornsbys or Woodchucks. Everything was mixed together at the same time: 4 Gallons of Motts Apple Juice 3/4 Cup Agave Nectar sugar 1 Package of Lager Yeast 1. Let this sit in my house 66F for 1 full day. Started fermentation. 2. Moved it to my garage to...