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Haha thank you for your reply. The thing that I found weird was that there was never any krausen or airlock action at any point in the past two weeks. That along with the very rapid initiation and termination of fermentation when I add more sugar, and on top of that a lack of alcoholic taste got...

So I'm about two weeks into my fermentation. I ended up pitching some lalvin EC-1118 yeast two weeks ago, but wasn't getting much fermentation (or so I thought) since I wasn't getting any action through the airlock (yeah yeah I know its not a good way to check fermentation). Anyways I pitched...

Well that doesn't sound too bad at all, thanks!

Thanks for the response. I started my cold crash but now have no idea what the next steps are. Will I eventually be putting my cider back into the fermentation bucket?

Hi guys, just opened up my first plastic test bottle and it fizzed up out of the bottle. Its been less than 48 hours so I'm not sure what happened. What are my options?

Looks like its bottling day for me. How many days do you guys wait before pasteurizing? I'll be setting a plastic soda bottle aside as a measure of carbonation, but I just wanted to get an idea of the average wait time.

Thank you for the replies! I really appreciate it. Well, to be honest I'm not sure if its done fermenting since I don't have a hydrometer (working on a student budget unfortunately). However, I haven't gotten any bubbles through my airlock in the past day. As for the fermentation and...

Hi guys, Sorry for what is most likely a repeat question but I'm a little bit confused about the last few steps in this recipe. I'm just about two weeks in and ready to move on to the bottling bucket part. I'm going for a carbonated cider so I was planning on simply transferring to a...