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Came here to say that it never recovered, I had to pour the whole thing out and it smelled kind of like rotten eggs at the end. Don't follow in my footsteps, lesson learned: make your primary fermentation 2 gallons larger than your secondary fermentation container

Repitched yesterday and still no action today. Moving the bucket to from the garage where it's slightly warmer. Will give it a week or so to see if something happens. Appreciate any recommendations.

What what it's worth my plan is to let some more oxygen in now. I've taken off the airlock and stirred it up. I put a towel over the hole in the lid rather than the airlock. I'll plan on stirring it once in the morning and night for the next two days and see if a krausen develops, if so, then...

Also today I noticed still no bubbles escaping from the airlock, so it's been 2 days since pitching the yeast.

So just put it in a cold spot with the airlock installed or no airlock? And how cold and how long? Do I need to repitch another yeast?

I think I had an infection in secondary and I wanted to explain what I've done to try an fix it and see if anyone has any advice on what I should have done and what I should do from this point on. So first the backstory: I juiced about 5 gallons worth of cider must into my fermenter for...