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Last season was my 2nd year with my hop bines and I managed to harvest a lot. I dried them out and packed them into ziplocks and pressed all the air out and stored them in the freezer. They have been in there around 4 months i believe. Willamette, Nugget, Cascade, and Fuggle variety if that...

Well alright then. Thank you everyone for your help and advice and being so prompt. I guess one more question. Has anyone had success in adding priming sugar to carbonate cider. Would maybe like to change up some of it before or as I bottle it so I don't wind up with 10 gal or so of...

So it looks like they BOTH measured 0.994 when I took a hydrometer reading. There was not a noticeable difference in taste really either. Not very sweet either. Thinking about repitching yeast. Thoughts? Add nutrient as well? Sugar?

I am generally not a fan of sweet things so I tend to the drier side of things. The hydrometer reading should provide some info I need. I keep asking about adding sugar to help kick start fermentation because when I did try both ciders they did NOT taste sweet at all really. If it had tasted...

It is in a fairly dark corner and been held at 64-67 F. I am going to take a hydrometer reading of both and try giving them a repitch I am thinking.

When I talked to the orchard owner I was told the buckets would be filled directly with fresh cider. I had to wait for the press day to get the buckets filled. I trust the guy.

Unfortunately they both seemed to live and die in unison. Neither foamed up and bubbling stopped almost exactly the same time. It did not taste very sweet at all though so I wonder if pitching yeast alone would suffice. Would it even with go-ferm? I have never heard of that. Would adding some...

The two yeasts were QA23 and EC-1118 and yes the campden and yeast were not too far apart. Could that have been my big mistake?

So I tried my hand at fermenting some fresh pressed cider from a local orchard. I had 2 cleaned and sanitized five gallon buckets filled. The idea was to pitch 2 different yeasts for 2 different resulting ciders. This is my first attempt brewing cider without a boil opting for campden tablets...