like2brew
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gonna be in the primary for ten days next saturday. gonna bottle it then. carb it and wait. i know time will do wonders but i am impatient 5 gallons of motts and a packet of safale-s04. what do you think
I am impatient too. I say after 10 days you could stick it in the fridge for a couple weeks (in the primary) then it will be fine. Though this will only work if your are not carbing or force carbing as there will likely still be some sugar left
I'd not even bottle it for at least a month. At 10 days, it might not be done fermenting, it might not be clear, and it might taste really yeasty.
Ideally, you'd bottle it at about 3 months old or later. I can understand wanting to rush it, but you don't want yeasty bottle bombs.
That's the one thing I wouldn't do- 10 day old cider will taste like ass. Sticking it in the fridge will slow the aging process, and maybe prevent the yeast from continuing to finish it up, but that will really give hard cider a bad name.
Maybe I am just old (44) but I have found that drinking it young and yeasty can lead to unwanted physical side effects.
Maybe I am just old (44) but I have found that drinking it young and yeasty can lead to unwanted physical side effects.
really, when i drink young (or any age really) apfelwien I have the opposite problem all morning long.
really, when i drink young (or any age really) apfelwien I have the opposite problem all morning long.
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