Symbiote
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1 glass 6-gallon carboy and 1 6-gallon Better Bottle, for just under 12 gallons.
Each contains 9 quarts of apple juice and 14 quarts of simple syrup.
The simple syrup was made by boiling 3.5 gallons of water and adding 14 pounds of sugar, then cooling and auto-siphoning to top off the fermenters. 6 gallons per carboy is a lot of thermal mass, I let it sit overnight to cool and then pitched the yeast about 10 minutes ago. The yeast is Red Star Pasteur Champagne. As of this morning there was no bubbling in the bubblers, so there are no baddies in the mix.
SWMBO doesn't like dry wines, hopefully the yeast will die off before all the sugar is consumed. If it is still dry at bottling time, we plan to mix in some stevia so as to avoid starting up the yeasties again.
Didn't take the OG And there is no way the corks are coming out now that they are in and sanitary.
Total materials cost: $13 for 6 3-qt bottles of apple juice, and $7 for the sugar.
Hope it isn't nasty
Each contains 9 quarts of apple juice and 14 quarts of simple syrup.
The simple syrup was made by boiling 3.5 gallons of water and adding 14 pounds of sugar, then cooling and auto-siphoning to top off the fermenters. 6 gallons per carboy is a lot of thermal mass, I let it sit overnight to cool and then pitched the yeast about 10 minutes ago. The yeast is Red Star Pasteur Champagne. As of this morning there was no bubbling in the bubblers, so there are no baddies in the mix.
SWMBO doesn't like dry wines, hopefully the yeast will die off before all the sugar is consumed. If it is still dry at bottling time, we plan to mix in some stevia so as to avoid starting up the yeasties again.
Didn't take the OG And there is no way the corks are coming out now that they are in and sanitary.
Total materials cost: $13 for 6 3-qt bottles of apple juice, and $7 for the sugar.
Hope it isn't nasty