rancidcrabtree
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
My first batch of cider is in the middle of fermenting right now, bubbling away every three seconds or so. It's a 5.5 gallon batch of 100% apple juice in a 6.5 gallon carboy, I'm planning on just letting it sit in there for a few months and not bothering with a secondary so as to keep my other carboy available for beer, unless an expert out there thinks it would be a good idea to do otherwise. What I'd like to do, to add a little more flavor and avoid the problem of having too much open space in the carboy after fermentation is finished, is to top it off with about a gallon of 100% cranberry juice. Would this be a bad thing to do mid fermentation or just a bad idea in general?
My first batch of cider is in the middle of fermenting right now, bubbling away every three seconds or so. It's a 5.5 gallon batch of 100% apple juice in a 6.5 gallon carboy, I'm planning on just letting it sit in there for a few months and not bothering with a secondary so as to keep my other carboy available for beer, unless an expert out there thinks it would be a good idea to do otherwise. What I'd like to do, to add a little more flavor and avoid the problem of having too much open space in the carboy after fermentation is finished, is to top it off with about a gallon of 100% cranberry juice. Would this be a bad thing to do mid fermentation or just a bad idea in general?