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Thanks for the interest everyone. It was just the apple juice, as squeezed, with 4 tsp of Young's Yeast Nutrient. Cotton wool was fairly tight I suppose. I measured pH to be 3.8 which is according to Pooley/Lomax right on the upper limit but I didn't dare tinker with it and in my newbie...

Started my first ever batch of cider last weekend, put 4 gallons into a plastic wine makers barrel/bucket with lid on it and cotton wool in hole but with a wire heater on it as I don't really have a suitable 'warm cupboard'. I've just siphoned today it into demijohns and fitted bubblers, I now...