mjosephm08
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Hi Everyone,
New to the forum and brewing. I started off with a cider from a local orchard and have about 5gallons (roughly). I have split the cider into two seperate carboys and added white sugar to one, brown sugar to the other. I added 7.5 pounds of white sugar to the one carboy and added 6pounds of brown sugar to the other.
I know I know that seems like a lot the guy at the brewing store told me that (rookie mistake) ...anyways I ended up with a Initial Specific Gravity of 1.1.
I pitched EC1118 at week one and it took a few weeks to finally start going down..didn't seem to work much so the guy told me to pitch again..started working nicely..after about four weeks I had a gravity reading of only 1.06...
After this I transferred into my secondary and the brew store guy told me to pitch again and add yeast nutrient (I hadn't before).
Since I did this it's been dropping nicely..and I'm almost 1.01 (about 1.012 roughly). My question is ...should I put into a third carboy since a lot of gunk is at the bottom now and I don't want that taste?..or should I just leave it in the secondary carboy since it looks like it's almost done?
I've been tasting it over the weeks and now that the gravity is getting much closer to 1 it's tasting a lot harsher (more like a semi-dry wine I guess)..I was hoping more for a beer alcohol content but I'm guessing since I put so much sugar I'm sorta screwed? haha
And I algo guess letting it age will give it a much better/smooth flavor right?
Any, advice/tips would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks for reading all of this everyone!
happy holidays!
M.
New to the forum and brewing. I started off with a cider from a local orchard and have about 5gallons (roughly). I have split the cider into two seperate carboys and added white sugar to one, brown sugar to the other. I added 7.5 pounds of white sugar to the one carboy and added 6pounds of brown sugar to the other.
I know I know that seems like a lot the guy at the brewing store told me that (rookie mistake) ...anyways I ended up with a Initial Specific Gravity of 1.1.
I pitched EC1118 at week one and it took a few weeks to finally start going down..didn't seem to work much so the guy told me to pitch again..started working nicely..after about four weeks I had a gravity reading of only 1.06...
After this I transferred into my secondary and the brew store guy told me to pitch again and add yeast nutrient (I hadn't before).
Since I did this it's been dropping nicely..and I'm almost 1.01 (about 1.012 roughly). My question is ...should I put into a third carboy since a lot of gunk is at the bottom now and I don't want that taste?..or should I just leave it in the secondary carboy since it looks like it's almost done?
I've been tasting it over the weeks and now that the gravity is getting much closer to 1 it's tasting a lot harsher (more like a semi-dry wine I guess)..I was hoping more for a beer alcohol content but I'm guessing since I put so much sugar I'm sorta screwed? haha
And I algo guess letting it age will give it a much better/smooth flavor right?
Any, advice/tips would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks for reading all of this everyone!
happy holidays!
M.