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Okay a little update. I went to take another sample from the tap and noticed that the bucket was very warm, so warm that the thermometer sticker was not reading anything so it must have been over 36C (98F). I hadn't noticed this for a while because there was a thermal jacket around the bucket so...

I started a kit beer and a kit cider at the same, at two weeks I racked them into buckets with a tap at the bottom. They tasted ok, cider was perhaps a bit sweeter than expected. Due to stupid lockdowns and postal system overload I didn't have the sugar drops on hand that I wanted, so I ended up...

For the record, I went ahead with the yeast that had been heated and it seems to be ok for now. The second and third days it was bubbling pretty well. Fermentation has stopped and it's tasting alright so far. It occurred to me that due to the shape of the pouch that it was attached under, there...

Thanks for the info. I put a little yeast in some sugary water overnight and about 1/4 of it has started that slow bouncing up and down that they do. In the past when I've tried this it's usually more like 1/2 of it that does that. This is hardly a scientific test but it looks like a possibly...

I was making a kit today (MJ Rustic Brown) and forgot that the yeast sachet was stuck to the bottom of the pouch. I put the pouch in a large pot and poured near-boiling water over it and let it sit for about 15 minutes to loosen up the malt. I'm aware that boiling yeast directly is a no-no, but...

Started at 1.06 and was around 1.005 when moving into the secondary. IIRC this should be about 7% but it felt more like about 20 to my (amateur) senses. Taste is definitely not sweet, more yeasty than bitter though. There was no action in the airlock for the first three days, it only started...

How long is too long for a secondary to sit? I racked my primary at 10 days when it seemed to be mostly fermented, after that the secondary bubbled half-heartedly through the airlock for just a few hours. That was a week ago. Now I am about to head overseas for 3 weeks, and I'm wondering...

Thanks folks, that's good to hear. Here in New Zealand we have a brand called Charlies which positions itself as the purest, and this is Charlies juice so I don't think I'll find any purer in the supermarket. My local supermarket has a batch which is approaching its use-by date (still a month...

I came across some apple juice at a really cheap price, so I thought it would be a good chance to try my hand at making cider. Just now looking around on the net though, I read that most store bought juices are likely to contain stabilizers which will ruin the fermenting process. The...