hello,
Ive made a few different brewing kits before, and understand quite a lot about the whole process.
However recently ive been making a wilkos forest fruits cider kit( (40 pints),
it reccomended puting 1.5KG of sugar into the mix along with the rest of stuff.
However i wanted to make a stronger cider, so i added an extra 0.5Kg to it.
Everything that could possibly sterrilised has been, and the temperature has been as constant as i am able to get it, (screw top bucket with an airlock sat in a large basin of water with two thermostatically controlled aquarium heaters in, set at the correct temperature 20 degrees my house is freezing, so i am confident that the temperature never exceeds this))
The Starting gravity was 1.052. It said to let it ferment for 4-6 days, untill it had finished primary fermentation.
however the bubbling in the airlock has slowed, but after nearly 9 days, the SG is still 1.022.
is there a problem or reason why the fermentation time is so drastically much more? how long could i expect to wait?
is there any tips on what i should actually do next?
Hoping this isnt a problem or my christmas may not be so merry!
thank you
Ive made a few different brewing kits before, and understand quite a lot about the whole process.
However recently ive been making a wilkos forest fruits cider kit( (40 pints),
it reccomended puting 1.5KG of sugar into the mix along with the rest of stuff.
However i wanted to make a stronger cider, so i added an extra 0.5Kg to it.
Everything that could possibly sterrilised has been, and the temperature has been as constant as i am able to get it, (screw top bucket with an airlock sat in a large basin of water with two thermostatically controlled aquarium heaters in, set at the correct temperature 20 degrees my house is freezing, so i am confident that the temperature never exceeds this))
The Starting gravity was 1.052. It said to let it ferment for 4-6 days, untill it had finished primary fermentation.
however the bubbling in the airlock has slowed, but after nearly 9 days, the SG is still 1.022.
is there a problem or reason why the fermentation time is so drastically much more? how long could i expect to wait?
is there any tips on what i should actually do next?
Hoping this isnt a problem or my christmas may not be so merry!
thank you