Newbie Help Needed; Stalled Fermentation?

[Jerkwad]

Hey everyone. I'm new here. I'm doing my first home brewing, I'm doing 1 gallon of cider and 1 gallon of brown ale. I started fermentation about 3 days ago. The beer is going strong. The cider however is showing very little activity, and about 1/4th inch of lees at the bottom of the vessel. I'm going to pull a sample tonight and check the gravity and give it a taste. I did put a drop of fermcap-S, however I didn't refrigerate it as instructed on the bottle and it sat at room temp for a few days since coming in the mail. Worst case I'm thinking here I'll have to rack and re-pitch yeast, but thought I'd ask you guys if that much lees was normal this early in fermentation or if that was a definitive sign of a stalled fermentation. Thanks in advance for any help. Oh, I did also add YAN to help the yeast.

 

[skadalajara]

3 days could be the end of active fermentation. Or it could just be particulates in the juice settling out.
We'd need a gravity reading, recipe and fermentation temperature to be sure.
I'd let it sit a week or so. See if it clears any. Take gravity readings over the course of the week and proceed based on those.

 

[Jerkwad]

Temperature fluctuates between 63 and 65, its in my basement.

I pulled a sample yesterday and racked it and re-pitched and immediately got more active fermentation that is still continuing today. My SG was 1.051 and the one I pulled was 1.049.

 

[yeahfairly]

Curious.... What type or brand of juice did you use for your cider?

 

[Jerkwad]

It's from a local cider mill, UV treated. I'm only doing 1 gallon. 48hrs before I pitched yeast I crushed up 1 campden tablet.