Applee
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This is my fist year making cider. I have pressed 64 litres of apple juice from my trees. I filled 10 Demijohns and 1 big plastic tub was half filled to 14 litres (which I thought was doing really well and active but not smells very much like vinegar)
I pressed my apples filled up the Demijohns added 1 cup of sugar then left open for a couple of days then I put the airlock on.
One of the Demijohns was started a week before the rest (20/09/2015) and I have believed it has been fermenting as I see small air bubbles. I got hydrometer 9 days after I had bottles it so wasn't able to get original gravity, but on the 29/09/2015 it read 1.052. I have left it since then and it has lots of little bubbles in the liquid coming to the surface, and makes the airlock bubble every now and then but now it is 11/10/2015 and I took a reading today which read 1.052 again.
Does the small bubble indicate it is fermenting? There is gunky stuff at the top of the demijohn.
Should I add yeast, and if so do I need to kill the natural yeast?
I pressed my apples filled up the Demijohns added 1 cup of sugar then left open for a couple of days then I put the airlock on.
One of the Demijohns was started a week before the rest (20/09/2015) and I have believed it has been fermenting as I see small air bubbles. I got hydrometer 9 days after I had bottles it so wasn't able to get original gravity, but on the 29/09/2015 it read 1.052. I have left it since then and it has lots of little bubbles in the liquid coming to the surface, and makes the airlock bubble every now and then but now it is 11/10/2015 and I took a reading today which read 1.052 again.
Does the small bubble indicate it is fermenting? There is gunky stuff at the top of the demijohn.
Should I add yeast, and if so do I need to kill the natural yeast?