Second Batch ---- zoom zoom!!

[macaler]

5.5 gallons of various apple juices, mixed in with some local sugar (boiled up some juice to dissolve the hard sugar).

Mixed in some yeast nutrient and pitched yeast (it was some cider yeast i bought in USA in a few months ago).

OG 1.05

This was last tuesday.

Noticed on Saturday that my mix had stopped bubbling after 2-3 days of really hard bubbling...I mean... the Airlock was going mad!!

Took a reading last night, gravity down to 1.00 But VERY VERY fast!!

SO, I thought Id give it a stir just in case this was just the top that was finished and somehow the bottom part was still "apples".
Of course i mixed the lees up to an already cloudy mixture, making it way more cloudy.
I mixed up a small batch (half cup) of gelatin and threw that into my batch hoping it'll clear it some. Will wait it out for a week and see how much the yeast drops out!

I've never heard of yeast doing its job so fast!!

 

[MindenMan]

Yeast variety and warm temperatures can finish a batch of cider very quickly. I doubt you did any damage by adding gelatin so soon, but next time you may want to do successive hydro readings before fining your cider. What is the current temperature of your cider? I do hope you did not get any off flavors with such a fast fermentation. Keep us posted.

 

[macaler]

Well, i let this mixture sit for a few weeks for no other reason that i was busy.

Final SG was .9 .. i guess somewhere around 8-9%.

Made 2 separate secondaries with original 6 gallon batch. One I back-sweetened with Grape and the other with pomegranate. Both taste nice.

let them sit for a few days just to see what would happen. nothing really, the odd bubble in each airlock.

I bottled and have forgone the pasteurization process. I think my yeast was "done". If i get a small bit of carbonation in bottles, I'm good with that.