Ghunter0815
Well-Known Member
Paps...this stuff is AMAZING!! Just popped open a bottle from my batch made last July! All I can say is...."I am not worthy! I am not woooorrrthy!!" Haha
As a matter of fact, I do. Check this out.
Does that look right? I would think it would be clearing by now.
Get some K.C.Super Kleer (keiseol-chitosan)
Follow the instructions it gives you.
You will have crystal clear cider within a day or 2.
You don't "need" it but if you are in a hurry theres nothing better.
So you don't boil or cook the sugar?
will the yeast be able to convert it without stirring?
http://glintcap.org/results/noncommercial/year/2016-glintcap/
Yee-Haw!
Scroll down to specialty cider and Perry near the bottom.
I've not done cider before and thought I would start with this recipe. Very simple. Mixed everything into a sanitized 6 gallon carboy. Did not boil the sugar but did boil the tablespoon of yeast energizer (fermaid) since it's been sitting around for awhile. Rehydrated the EC-1118 yeast before adding. Currently sitting at 65 degrees. Not much going on yet except for a layer of bubbles at top. Will let you know when there is something else to report. Am hoping for a strong but slightly sweet appley-tasting cider. If this works, I may experiment with other yeasts, back-sweetening, etc.
Ghunter, when did you bottle yours? 8 months is a long time to tie up a carboy. I was thinking 2 months in carboy at most and then into bottles (unprimed) for an indeterminate time after that ie. until they get good.
Brewed 4.5 gallons 2 weeks ago so starting to think about bottling in the next few weekends and I want to get that apple taste back since what Ive read is this yeast will strip a lot of the apple flavor out. My question is, can i add a half gallon of apple juice in the bottling bucket when I go to bottle it in a few weeks or will it create bombs?
I added powdered once,ONCE .
It did not go well.........Don't do powder.
The sticks sound like a good addition to 2ndary but i've yet to use them myself.
Perhaps on the batch i start on monday.
I'll post results if i do.
If I had no way to get a secondary, I would do one week primary in juice bottles or buy juice in gallon jug, covered with coffee filter and rack to glass carboy and airlock then. You would get rid of most of trub, in primary and just go six weeks in secondary, cold crash, rack and bulk age in sanitized juice bottle. I would cap the juice jugs and burb them, while allowing it to carb in juice bottle. I lager some of my cider, in PET gallon jugs(Arizona Tea) in frig, just burb when it swells too much.I only have a one gallon glass carboy and no secondary fermenter are there any suggestions or precautions for adjusting this recipe for a one gallon with only primary?
is one packet of yeast to much? Do I need to cut that, the yeast nutrient and the KC?
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