Dakob
Member
No seriously, what indeed HAVE I done?
I got this recipe for homemade cider from a friend:
Use 2L bottle to brew it in.
Sterilise bottle with hot water and camden tablet
Pour in slightly less than 2L of cloudy carton juice (not concentrate)
Add a few tspns of white sugar
Stir together
Add tspn of Yeast (Bakers yeast/bread yeast)
Stir in
Stretch plastic bag over lid of bottle and seal with rubber band
Leave for six days
Remove seal, siphon off everythign but the sediment into other bottle
Drink.
Now, I should have known better but I tried this anyway, and well... basically it came out smelling of hydrogen sulfide and tasted awful and had a foul chemical aftertaste and was still full of active yeast as far as I know and was really cloudy. I ended up binning it.
Anyway, given the resources I have (no demijons or proper tops or anything), how did this go wrong and how could I put it right next time? Would it ever have been possible to drink after 6 days without things going horribly wrong?
Cheers
Dakob
I got this recipe for homemade cider from a friend:
Use 2L bottle to brew it in.
Sterilise bottle with hot water and camden tablet
Pour in slightly less than 2L of cloudy carton juice (not concentrate)
Add a few tspns of white sugar
Stir together
Add tspn of Yeast (Bakers yeast/bread yeast)
Stir in
Stretch plastic bag over lid of bottle and seal with rubber band
Leave for six days
Remove seal, siphon off everythign but the sediment into other bottle
Drink.
Now, I should have known better but I tried this anyway, and well... basically it came out smelling of hydrogen sulfide and tasted awful and had a foul chemical aftertaste and was still full of active yeast as far as I know and was really cloudy. I ended up binning it.
Anyway, given the resources I have (no demijons or proper tops or anything), how did this go wrong and how could I put it right next time? Would it ever have been possible to drink after 6 days without things going horribly wrong?
Cheers
Dakob