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After 6 months of waiting to bottle my yearly cider making I was bummed out to find a few ants had somehow found their way into the 3 piece airlock and drowned. Along with their floating carcasses was a thin white growth inside the airlock (which must be alcohol tolerant since I use vodka in...

Well thought I would give an update now that the batch has been bottled for awhile. So far no signs of infection, everything tastes as it should and no weird floaties or anything!

Glad to hear it might not be an issue, day 1 of ferment so will post results in a few weeks. Time for a beer ;)

I'm ashamed to admit but I forgot to flame the lip of my yeast starter when pitching- gah! It was covered in foil, but I used a stir plate which I imagine drew in air across the lip and deposited who knows what there. My thinking is that there will be enough yeast from the starter to have a...

Well I followed the recipe and did not boil my " pasteurized" apple juice, just added to fermentor with my boiled wort. At about 1.5 months in I noticed some build up in the bottles that did not look like yeast, at 2 months the infection was so bad half of a 22oz bottle was full of some sort of...

Hmm, I think something is growing in my cider bottles... The taste is fine, no off flavors from when the bottles used to be clear (Did 1 week primary, 1 week secondary, has been in bottles for 6 weeks). At about week 4 in the bottle I noticed some sediment buildup, now like the bottom 1/4 of...