Bad Cider

[pat-f]

Hi, I went to bottle some cider I made last night, and it had an extremely off taste to it. The taste was something like a wet dog or an old gym sock. Definitely not good. I started the batch back in October with juice from fresh apples (I juiced them myself), I used Campden tablets, and sanitized everything with IO safe. So, does this sound like an infection? Bad yeast? Something else I may have done wrong?
Thanks,
Pat

 

[CandleWineProject]

Hmm, would you call it "mousy"? The books always talk about a sickness that smells like a mouse cage.

 

[pat-f]

I guess it could be characterised as being mousey. I forgot to mention, that there was a lot of pulp in the bottom of the fermenter.

 

[CandleWineProject]

http://www.cider.org.uk/part5.htm

"Mousiness is unmistakeable to those who have tasted it, although individual sensitivity varies widely from person to person. The flavour is best likened to that of a mouse-cage, although some people think it is closer to bread or freshly-baked biscuits. Strangely enough, the chemical compounds responsible for all these flavours are identical! This defect arises from a slow microbial action in storage, and although its chemistry is generally understood nobody knows why it happens in some ciders but not in others. Unfortunately there seems to be no reliable way of preventing its formation or of removing it once formed, although it is generally less common in ciders which have been sulphited, and access to oxygen appears to encourage it. "

If that doesn't sound like it, read though the rest of the page and see if anything does sound like it.

 

[pat-f]

That sounds exactly like what I am dealing with.