Recent content by Trentonln

Update: I had some last night of the finished product. Think I made apple wine instead of cider! It's light colored, and is very "winey".... It's still pretty good though. I'm working on a 2nd batch, it's fermenting now. One difference is I'm using hodgson mills bread yeast from the...

thanks for the replies. Not sure what kind of yeast exactly it is; I threw away the envelope & didn't write it down. Maybe next time I'll start writing down everything! I'll just wait a few more days & go from there..

I don't know how to take gravity readings. I'd like to put off buying equipment for now, and get more detailed in the future. Being a natural product, with yeast put in, in addition to the yeast already on the apples, with the sugars in the apple juice, I would *assume* it's fermenting...

Hello, I'd been wanting to make my own cider for a while now; I went to a local homebrew place that's been there for years, and the owner basically said to keep it simple, experiment, have fun. So, right now I've got a plastic-wrapped 2-gal plastic bucket with about a gallon of apple...