lthursdayl
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Yesterday I started my first cider. Wondering if anyone has any advice or suggestions for moving along with.
So I started with:
4 Gallons Organic unfiltered pasteurized apple juice
1/2 Pound Organic Brown Sugar
4 Grams Nottingham yeast
Poured half a gallon of the apple juice into my 6 gallon carboy. Then mixed the 1/2 pound of brown sugar into the 1/2 gallon of juice and shook until dissolved into the juice. Added the rest of the juice and pitched in the 4 grams of yeast. Then added airlock. My sg reading was 1.06 after adding everything.
So its a day later from mixing everything and am still not getting fermentation, which from what I have read seems normal may take another day or two?
AI am planning in racking it into my secondary with sugar before bottling to carbonate. What I am a little confused about is how does cold crashing work(and do I need to do it)? Do it do it in the carboy or in the secondary? How long does it need to be chilled for, and after cold crashing does it need to be put into the carboy then bottled, or just stay in the container it was cold crashed in? Also should I add the sugar before or after cold crashing?
Thanks for any help.
So I started with:
4 Gallons Organic unfiltered pasteurized apple juice
1/2 Pound Organic Brown Sugar
4 Grams Nottingham yeast
Poured half a gallon of the apple juice into my 6 gallon carboy. Then mixed the 1/2 pound of brown sugar into the 1/2 gallon of juice and shook until dissolved into the juice. Added the rest of the juice and pitched in the 4 grams of yeast. Then added airlock. My sg reading was 1.06 after adding everything.
So its a day later from mixing everything and am still not getting fermentation, which from what I have read seems normal may take another day or two?
AI am planning in racking it into my secondary with sugar before bottling to carbonate. What I am a little confused about is how does cold crashing work(and do I need to do it)? Do it do it in the carboy or in the secondary? How long does it need to be chilled for, and after cold crashing does it need to be put into the carboy then bottled, or just stay in the container it was cold crashed in? Also should I add the sugar before or after cold crashing?
Thanks for any help.