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Hello! So my friend and I have endeavored to start up some new batches of cider. We went to purchase the juice we used last time, but none was available, leaving us with an unpasteurized option. Not wanting to boil eight gallons of cider, we crushed up one Campden tablet per gallon and...

Thanks for getting back at me with all the wisdom and tips! Snuesen, we used some Iodophor water in the airlocks, but by that point it was a bit lighter in color, so perhaps it was running out of juice. Pondochris, two of the ferments were in primary for 6 days and one was in primary...

Hi all, A friend and I have been trying our hands at brewing hard cider and have found that our efforts have yielded some 'rotten' results. We were fermenting one gallon of apple juice from WFoods with English ale yeast, two gallons of apple cider with Pasteur Champ yeast, and one gallon...