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Hi All, This morning I took a sample for testing w/refractometer and palate. This is now 27 days since pitch. The reading from the refractometer hadn't changed - still showing ~1.018 (corrected to ~1.006). The flavor and aroma were much different though. Less cloudy & less orange, more yellow...

Hi All, I checked this again yesterday (2/10), and got an unadjusted reading of 1.018, which corrects to roughly 1.006. We're really in business! The flavors were a little funky, a bit sour and acidic, a bit citrusy and floral, and clearly with some alcohol though not very strongly. (I'm no...

Hi All, just a quick update on this: I moved it over to near a heating vent, which I expect raised the temperature by something like 8-10 degrees. A refractometer reading on 2/3 (13 days after pitch) showed 1.030 (unadjusted), which works out to about 1.016 after adjusting. Subjectively, it's...

Hi One and all! After a couple years of child-rearing hiatus I'm hopping back into the cider-making game. 🍻 I'm starting with an all-brett (WLP648) primary fermentation, and it's not going quite how I anticipated. It's based on some notes I had from when I made ciders in 2017, but my notes are...