This will be a rant so continue reading if you would like.
On Saturday i had the day free. I wanted to make a holiday cider. I thought what better way to get fresh apple cider with no preservatives then to make my own apple cider from fresh apples.
This was my first mistake, i read online you can make it using a blender and cheese cloth. Nope not easy at all. had to hand slice up the apples small enough that i could run them through my food processor one at a time. I do not have a juicer. I bought 8 lbs apples and got 3/4 gallon of fresh cider!!! Took hours.
Mistake 2: Buying the first store bought cider i saw after my sodium metabisulphite was mixed in the fresh apples for 24 hrs. Need to go to the store to check to make sure the cider was preservative free.
Added 2 lbs brown sugar and finally hydrated some notty and pitched it.
I checked my date code on my notty to make sure it was not a bad batch, didn't seem to fall into the bad batch date code i got off here.
So my only guess is the cider i bought had potassium sorbate in it.
After doing much searching on here it is able to ferment it out with mega amounts of yeast, prolly wont bottle carb, and most lilkey will taste bad due to the preservatives.
i just needed to explain to some one my frustration of me being dumb and not checking for preservatives!!!
On Saturday i had the day free. I wanted to make a holiday cider. I thought what better way to get fresh apple cider with no preservatives then to make my own apple cider from fresh apples.
This was my first mistake, i read online you can make it using a blender and cheese cloth. Nope not easy at all. had to hand slice up the apples small enough that i could run them through my food processor one at a time. I do not have a juicer. I bought 8 lbs apples and got 3/4 gallon of fresh cider!!! Took hours.
Mistake 2: Buying the first store bought cider i saw after my sodium metabisulphite was mixed in the fresh apples for 24 hrs. Need to go to the store to check to make sure the cider was preservative free.
Added 2 lbs brown sugar and finally hydrated some notty and pitched it.
I checked my date code on my notty to make sure it was not a bad batch, didn't seem to fall into the bad batch date code i got off here.
So my only guess is the cider i bought had potassium sorbate in it.
After doing much searching on here it is able to ferment it out with mega amounts of yeast, prolly wont bottle carb, and most lilkey will taste bad due to the preservatives.
i just needed to explain to some one my frustration of me being dumb and not checking for preservatives!!!