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I am making a very simple cider recipe I found. I used Red Star champagne yeast and after 1 week of not seeing any activity I added fruit and took a gravity which was 1.050 but I my OG was at 1.050 should I pitch more yeast?
cider not starting fermentation
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Did you check that your juice or cider didn't have any preservatives in it? That would inhibit the yeast from working.
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I did look and found there were a couple things in it for freshness. After digging a little more I found that won't keep it from fermenting but the yeast won't reproduce. so I pitched four more packs of champagne yeast on it and it's going strong now. May not be exactly the right thing to do but hey if it salvages a batch then I'm happy.
