Madera
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I read about it on the internet and thought it would be fun to try..
Here's what I used:
64oz 100% apple juice
1 packet of rapidrise bread yeast(planned on 1/2 but ended up pouring it all in)
1.5cups table sugar
make an airlock essentially by runing co2 through a tube into water
it seemed to be working ok....till the foam I forgot about reading up on earlier started creeping up the tube and into the water
So now the tube is full of foam, the water is nice and murky, and the gas is not coming out in single bubbles, but instead, big bursts.
I raised the water well above the juice in hopes that the foam might not make it up the tube and would slide back down into the juice...but it didn't.
My big question is: Will this effect the final product? Am I losing a bunch of yeast in the foam? Can I wait for the foam to die down and rinse the tube and change the water with no ill effects(i.e. vinegar)?
If anyone is around right now, please help!
Also, I know bread yeast won't make a good hard cider, but is there any way I can make a decent hard cider with what I've got going?
And since I don't have any fancy equipment, is there any way I can store this to age it when I'm done(since I'm 90% sure it will not taste good) in hopes of bettering the final product?
Thank you ahead of time for the help!!!
Hopefully I don't mess this up bad enough to make me never want to try it again
Here's what I used:
64oz 100% apple juice
1 packet of rapidrise bread yeast(planned on 1/2 but ended up pouring it all in)
1.5cups table sugar
make an airlock essentially by runing co2 through a tube into water
it seemed to be working ok....till the foam I forgot about reading up on earlier started creeping up the tube and into the water
So now the tube is full of foam, the water is nice and murky, and the gas is not coming out in single bubbles, but instead, big bursts.
I raised the water well above the juice in hopes that the foam might not make it up the tube and would slide back down into the juice...but it didn't.
My big question is: Will this effect the final product? Am I losing a bunch of yeast in the foam? Can I wait for the foam to die down and rinse the tube and change the water with no ill effects(i.e. vinegar)?
If anyone is around right now, please help!
Also, I know bread yeast won't make a good hard cider, but is there any way I can make a decent hard cider with what I've got going?
And since I don't have any fancy equipment, is there any way I can store this to age it when I'm done(since I'm 90% sure it will not taste good) in hopes of bettering the final product?
Thank you ahead of time for the help!!!
Hopefully I don't mess this up bad enough to make me never want to try it again