CatsCradle
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Hi everyone. I am relatively new to fermenting/ brewing. a couple months ago I started a 4 gallon cider fermentation and used an Omega Ale yeast. My starting gravity of the cider was 1.050 ( I used Motts). Following a couple weeks of primary fermentation I racked to secondary using four 1 gallon glass carboys. I took a hydrometer reading and it showed a 1.010. I then put in roughly 1 pound of raspberries in one carboy, 1 pound of strawberries in the second fermentor, about 3/4 cups of pomegranate juice in the third fermentor, and kept the fourth pure cider. A week went by and I decided to rack the raspberry and strawberry ciders off the fruit into new carboys. I took a quick hydrometer reading and saw that they both were 1.0004. I transferred to new carboys and topped off with some more motts apple juice to avoid excess headspace (roughly 2.5 cups each). Fast forward a couple more weeks and I decide to check my ciders again for gravity. Here is where stuff becomes super confusing. I first checked my unaltered pure cider and saw that it maintained a 1.010 gravity reading. This made sense and I was happy with it. Then I checked the pomegranate cider and saw that it too had maintained a 1.010 gravity. How is this possible I saw alot of fermentation since adding the pom wonderful juice, and the juice contains a good amount of sugar, yet no gravity alteration occurred. I then checked the raspberry cider and was completely baffled when I saw the gravity actually increased from 1.004 to 1.010 again. How is this possible? I wanted to add some more gravity so I put in 1 cup of white sugar into the raspberry and then again took a gravity reading and saw that the reading was still 1.010.
All in all I am completely baffled. Any insight would help me
All in all I am completely baffled. Any insight would help me