Potential Cider Issue

[scottyg354]

I had some Safale-05 and 1/2 lbs of Brown Sugar left over, so I bought two gallons of cider, blended it with the brown sugar and dumped half the package of Safale-05 in the fermenter three days ago. I looked today and no air bubble or krausen. Does this mean no fermentation or what?

 

[chairbornrangerx]

was your cider chemically pastuerized? if so then it killed the yeast

 

[beergolf]

You probably will get better response in the cider forum.

 

[lpstudio18]

I'm making my first cider with Nottingham right now....if I look closely I can see bubbling and the hydrometer definitely indicates it's fermenting, but there is zero krausen. I would take a hydro reading..it's probably fermenting.

 

[paulster2626]

Don't know for sure but would you even get krausen with cider? I know edwort's apfelwein fermentation = zero krausen. I just see a few CO2 bubbles swirling around at the top of the liquid so I know there is some activity happening in there.

I'd just wait a week or so, and take a grav. reading and a taste. Then you'll know for sure what's happening.

 

[scottyg354]

I made Graff and the krausen blew out of the airlock. Had to make an overflow.

Yes, it was pasturerized. Not sure chemically or not.

 

[scottyg354]

Yep, Potasium Sorbate. Guess I'll be dumping this tonight.

 

[chairbornrangerx]

Yep, Potasium Sorbate. Guess I'll be dumping this tonight.

I'm about to do a cider too, and I know several people with orchards, just going to get 5-10 gallons of unpasteurized cider and pasteurize it myself.

I found this to be a great read about cider, which is how i found out about the chemical pasteurization

http://www.makinghardcider.com/index.html