So I tried making cider and I think I failed horribly. I used organic pastuerized apple juice and did a batch with just a yeast packet split into 1/5 for each gallon. I used an ale yeast that guy at the store suggested.
I opened some up recently and it taste quite horrible and is super cloudy. My wife thinks it tastes vinegary but I used good air locks and made sure they were oxygen free.
So I did the fermentation in the 1 gallon glass jars that the juice came in. I never did a secondary just used the glass.
I did that fermentation for a month which I think was too long. I then racked off the yeast into my bottling bucket and added about 1/8 cup of sugar to the bottling bucket. It has been bottling for about a week and I opened up the bottles and not enough carb yet but just worried if the entire batch is bad
Let me know where I could have went wrong. I sterilized everything with iodine and boiling water
I opened some up recently and it taste quite horrible and is super cloudy. My wife thinks it tastes vinegary but I used good air locks and made sure they were oxygen free.
So I did the fermentation in the 1 gallon glass jars that the juice came in. I never did a secondary just used the glass.
I did that fermentation for a month which I think was too long. I then racked off the yeast into my bottling bucket and added about 1/8 cup of sugar to the bottling bucket. It has been bottling for about a week and I opened up the bottles and not enough carb yet but just worried if the entire batch is bad
Let me know where I could have went wrong. I sterilized everything with iodine and boiling water