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Sorry lol I was a little giddy this morning when I posted about stirring before reading some more on it. You guys are def. right again!

You guys were right, I stirred the crap out of it last night and put it in my room and this morning I finally after a week got bubbles in the airlock. I took the airlock off (it was only on so I could get a visual in the morning), broke it by accident lol, and then replaced it with a towel. I...

You guys were right, I stirred the crap out of it last night and put it in my room and this morning I finally after a week got bubbles in the airlock. I took the airlock off (it was only on so I could get a visual in the morning), broke it by accident lol, and then replaced it with a towel. I...

Nope no preservatives it's fresh from the orchard. You may be on to something though, maybe I'll give it a stir and sleep with my carboy tonight.

Still no fermentation after 4 days with the additional half packet of yeast. Actually my gravity went up haha oops! I guess I'm gonna try making a starter with the other half of the packet. I wonder if this will make it taste too yeasty?

Thanks for the replies guys! I shall -Throw in an extra half sachet of yeast -Let sit for a week under a towel. The yeast nutrient should still be in there, I assume, so I'll skip more of that...fun fun!

I've been trolling around this awesome forum for a while on trying to make my first batch of cider but I just wanna make sure of something here... I put all my sugar, 5 gal fresh apple cider, spices, 1/4 tsp potassium metasulphite, 1 2/3tbsp yeast nutrient, and 1118 yeast together and put on...