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Well I dont know for sure if it is stuck. It is going slow for sure, but there are still some light bubbles on the surface. It has been very cool where it is fermenting. I will take a reading again in a week or so...

I used straight fresh pressed cider from various apples, Lavlin K1-1116 Wine Yeast + Fermax Yeast Nutrient. OG was 1.052. It has been at around 60 deg the whole time and I did not add additional sugar. I hate to sulfite it (thats same as camden tablets, right?) but I guess that is an easy...

Well, I didn't add any sugar and my OG was 1.053. I dont know if I can repeat this batch cause I think that goodness is in the variety of apples in the cider. Otherwise I didn't do much but pitch yeast and add yeast nutrient. The experiment is a good suggestion though!

OK. That is what I needed to know. Thanks...maybe I will try this bottle pasteurization thing.

Hey all...I posted in the cider forum too, but I realize this was probably a better place for my question: I have a ~5 gallon batch of cider that has fermented down to a SG of 1.008. If I bottle now without priming sugar in beer bottles, is there any danger of me getting bottle bombs? I was...

I fermented a batch of cider this year that I think tastes better than any other I have made in the past. Even better, I pressed the cider at a friend's place who has a small orchard and got the juice for free. It included a bunch of different apples, and even some crab apples. Anyway, it...

Great suggestions! I am gonna just bring them to a brief boil and dump them on my ESB lees. Then I think I will just do something in secondary, either dry hop or fruit or both. The same guy that gave me the John Bull also gave me some older saaz pellets, which I could use to dry hop, assuming...

Hey Fellas! Tomorrow I was gonna rack off a somewhat botched (but still tasty) ESB brew to secondary and thought I would brew up something quick to put on top of the healthy ESB yeast cake that is in my fermenter. I have 2 cans of John Bull prehopped Light extract that someone gave me...

Thanks again everyone. This site is so helpful. Cheers all!

The main thing I am concerned about is my yeast...I assume it is viable, even though I still have seen no activity or anything. I was expecting it to behave more like when you proof yeast for bread or something to make sure it is alive.

Yeah, I like wheat in general, but this starter is actually for an ESB, so it's definitely out of place. However, I doubt my taste buds will be able to detect the difference. That said, I will probably try to decant what I can.

As I said...this is my first starter. This morning, I checked on the starter, after about 15 hours, and there is no sign of any activity. The yeast seemed settled on the bottom of the flask. Is this bad? There does not appear to be any activity. Am I just impatient as usual, or is this a...

Thanks a lot!

Hey all! I was gonna make a yeast starter today. This is the first time I have made a starter, and also I don't have a lot of my homebrew equipment here (including scale and hydrometer). I have a couple questions. 1. This starter is for an ESB but I was gonna use dried wheat extract...

Yeah, I really have no idea how these guys got in. It seems like it would be very acrobatic. They really went to town. I also had some seeds in there, and I found them all over the house, even in the bed!