Recent content by Zzyzx Rhoades

Update: looks like fermentation is starting to move. Better layer of bubbles, pushing up apple matter. No visible bubbling through the airlock at the moment. There is still 2 or 3 of these little white mold-looking things, slightly bigger than yesterday but not much. I am considering getting a...

Sanitized fermenters the day before driving an hour to drop them off at the cidery. I'm just hoping there is a way to salvage it now, before it goes any further.

It's definitely fuzzy. Two of them, smaller than a pea in diameter. They are in the 5 gallon carboy. Hard to get a clear picture through the glass.

This is my first attempt, starting off with fresh organic apples from a local farm, and had them pressed for me at a local cidery. Trying to go with natural fermentation, so no campden or metabisulfate, no yeast added. Straight into a 5 gal and 3 gal carboy with plenty of headspace for primary...