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Did a tasting tonite on the pure apple juice turned cider and then pitched with lacto beer sample from July. All I can say is wow! Just a month after this cider is starting to turn more sour. Reminds me of a faint version of petrus pale ale ... Not nearly as sour yet but you can taste that...

Fermentation on apple juice stopped before I pitched lacto bottle last weekend Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Just mixed on of the lacto bottles with cider version going to wait and see what happens Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Ok so tasting notes are in First bottle was ordinary bitter sg 1.040 fg 1.007 wlp007 repitched with 4 blackberries from trail run and let ferment for 5 weeks Ended up being super tart and acidic much like a lemon but even a bit more tart if that's possible. Had some film on the sample that...

Fermentation has started to slow down a bit on apple juice portion but not done still some bubbling. The plan next will be to brew a simple esb recipe and pitch the dregs of the apple into half the batch and one of the refermented beer with blackberry samples into the other half leave it for a...

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Great news as of today I have fermentation activity in apple juice after pitching one of the already fermenting beer bottles into the apple juice It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple months Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

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Here the recent pics Blueberry bottle And then Apple juice where I dumped a blackberry bottle into Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I wonder what will happen with the pure apple juice? I have normally added dextrose to make Apelwein Any experience with Brett? I was thinking if letting this all sit and ferment all out then combine it with some Orval dregs and let it sit for several months making a small Brett apelwein beer...

I have also seen people say this is pectin release. However what's interesting is it happened with two different exposures one from the blackberry and one from the blueberries so I would think it would look different but blueberry versions looks almost the same as these do Sent from my iPhone...

Cool I guess now I just wait and see Should I air lock them now or just leave me alone and hope the co2 blanket from the refermentation protects the beer from further oxidation? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I waited about two weeks, then I got some wild blueberries from a pick your own farm. One of the bottles that i had originally used for this experiment was a control with no blackberries. I wanted to see if it would get some wild yeast in it, but after 2 weeks no sign of anything. So I went...

So several weeks back I was running near my home when I came across a blackberry bush. I grabbed my empty water bottle and filled it with some blackberries from the bush expecting to take some home and do something with them in my brewing. When I returned home I stuck them in the fridge...