reonmaster
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First time poster long time reader. I have been brewing beer off and on for about a year and a half. So I decided its apple season why not try cider. Where I work there is a farmer that always comes by and he said that he had fresh pressed tree picked apple and pear cider. So I bought a gallon of each the pear and apple from him with intentions into turning it into hard cider. So I grabbed both apple and pear mixed them and took an OG measurement before adding any sugar and it came out to be 1.043 which I thought was a little low. I added about 5 teaspoons of sugar to it. Forgot to measure after that but I dumped it all into a 3 gallon fermentor with also a teaspoon of yeast nutrient. The yeast I picked was the English Dry Cider 775 yeast from White Labs. Shook it up like it said and then dumped that in. Made sure to aerate the cider before adding the yeast as well. So I did this on a Friday and came back on a Monday and saw absolutely no activity. The yeast was sitting on the bottle of the carboy and there was a tiny ring so I think there was some activity just not much. Now one question is I also saw a dead fly sitting on top of the cider.......dang thing mustve went in as I was putting the air lock on. If the cider fermented would you still drink it after that fly was in there? And the second question. After just 3 days do you think that yeast really fermented out what it needed to and turned that cider into a hard cider? Thanks all and cheers!