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I've had some pear cider fermenting for a few weeks and there was so much sediment that when I racked it there was too much headspace in my secondary container once it was racked. So I pressed a few more pears and added a few cups of fresh juice to the already fermenting juice after I racked it...

I'm new to cider-making. I've had three separate gallons fermenting for about a week now. I've heard that most fermentation should be done in a bout a week. I ALSO heard that when your bubbles in the airlock slow to a rate of about one a minute, most fermentation should be done. Oh, I don't have...

I don't have any bottling materials or anything...maybe I jumped into making cider without looking into it sufficiently. I'm making a few gallons as we speak. After my primary fermentation and my racking....I'm definitely going to rack it....lot of sediment....after it is racked and aged, if I...

I've had my cider bubbling away for a week now. I haven't smelled it. I don't even have a hydrometer. I guess I will see how it smells and whatnot when I rack it soon. My question is, I've been looking into it, but I haven't found a concise answer...how long does it take for cider to turn to...

I bought three different yeasts to try on some pear cider. Two of them were in English and said that they made 5 gallons, so since I was making 1 gallon batches I simply divided them into 5, which I think was a 1/4 teaspoon or so. The OTHER yeast was a Nottingham ale yeast, it wasn't all in...

I know this is probably a question for the cider room...but I'm a newbie, and there are far more people in here it seems. I currently have a few 1 gallon jugs of cider I just started. I should know this, but should I stir them everyday, or just let them sit? I thought I read somewhere that they...

I tried posting a question, I THOUGHT in this room, a few minutes ago, and it posted in the cider room IN a different thread I posted....if that makes any sense....so I'm gonna try this again: I'm making some pear cider and I noticed after it sitting a day that the 1 gallon jugs are like HALF...

So I made two separate batches of pear cider over the last few days from my own fresh pears. What I did was pulverize them with a food/type processor attachment off of my Kitchen Aid mixer. What it does is squirt out sort of an apple sauce texture pulp out of one spout, and it squirts out the...

I just started brewing a few small batches of pear cider the other day, and I don't have a hydrometer. I'm new to any kind of home-brewing. What's the best way to tell when primary fermentation is done and the cider is ready to be racked?? Is it as simple as when it stops bubbling, or are there...

Also, I know this is probably a really obvious thing to the people in here, but I just want to make sure, I have my pear cider fermenting in a gallon jug. It's sort of hard to stir it with the jug its in, though I've heard it should be stirred once of twice a day for the primary fermentation...

(Question is in 4th paragraph) Newbie here. The only batch of anything I've ever made up until this point was in high school when me and some buddies bought 2 plastic five gallon gas containers at Wal-Mart, a bunch of Welches concentrate, some yeast, and we put a balloon on the top for a few...

I'm not 100% sure my last question posted, so here is my question again, just in case: I'm a newbie, didn't buy the right size containers for the recipe I ended up deciding on, and was wondering if it would work fine to make pear cider simply with one gallon plastic jugs that contained distilled...