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  1. Chris H

    Want my cider to stop fermentation

    Usually pasteurization occurs once it's in its final container. That's because if you have fermentable sugar still in your cider, any yeast floating in the air or on the inside of the final container can take off once you put your cider in the final container. If you recall from your high...
  2. Chris H

    New to Cider Making

    If you do decide to pull the cider off the lees, with the conical you purchased, you can wait for the lees to settle into the bottom, and then rack off via the tap to another appropriately sized container. Should make it easier than using a siphon type racking cane.
  3. Chris H

    Soil Analysis

    Lime makes soil less acidic or increases pH. It would move the pH up which is more alkaline, which is the opposite direction from the recommendation. Move from 7.2 -> 6.5 is making the soil more acidic. https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/acids-bases-the-ph-scale...
  4. Chris H

    Soil Analysis

    Your state extension service is waiting to assist you with advice, but in the mean time... If P is too high it can kill your plants. We had a field on our farm that had pastured hogs on it. It's been decades since, and I still haven't had to add P to that field. Don't add any more P to your...
  5. Chris H

    Bath Pasteurizer Build US

    I'm starting to build a bath pasteurizer with the intention of using the CraftMetrics Pasteurizing computer and looking for advice from anyone who's done it, or maybe a plumber for this project. So far I have the following BOM: Tub - Seaplast DX327 Tankless heater - Rinnai CU199iP/11GPM (This...
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