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Hi! In the last few years, I've started culturing all of the liquid yeasts I purchase (my local HBS stores don't carry liquid cultures, so I rarely get a new one). I only have pure strain yeast cultures at this point (a handful of ale slants and a lager slant). I was wondering if it is...

Hi! 5 days after racking my last cider into the secondary fermenter, I noticed some granules collecting at the surface of the cider. I racked this cider on Nov 8 and the particles are pure white grains about the size of sugar, with similar structure (they're all different shapes, roughly...

Hi! Now that I've had my cider in secondaries for about 2 weeks, should I be considering some kind of sterilization/preservation for the rest of the time in the secondaries? How about before I bottle? I put a crushed campden tablet in each gallon about a week after racking to the 2ndaries...

...that is the question! I'm working on some mead and some cider, and since I'm making more cider than mead, I'm starting this thread here. :p Some articles/books/magazines I've read tell you to agitage the fermenting must/wort every few days to resuspend the yeast from the yeast bed into...

Hi! I've got my two batches (that are ready) transferred over to clean carboys for the secondary fermentation. I know with the primary fermentation, the temperature range is determined by the yeast.. which I maintained between 65-70deg for the yeasts I used. What temperature should I...

First off, let me say hello to everyone here! There appears to be a wealth of information available in this forum, but I'm not sure what to search for to see if my questions have been answered already. Here's my situation: I purchased 3 gallons of fresh, unpasteurized, unpreserved cider...