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1st batch of cider, experiment
OK, i started my 1st batch of cider in a 1-gallon applejuice container with a airlock, and EC-1118 yeast.
reading all the articles on the web, i expected the yeast to collect on the top or bottom of the cider, but after 3 weeks, it hasn't... its become cloudy, and I decded to test my 1st batch, its very yeasty. usually according to the articles, i should be doing a secondary fermentation, and siphoning it off in the 2nd container leaving as much of the muck as possible... but I don't have any muck!
I see people brewing on youtube, and see foam crap floating and sometimes overflowing their airlocks, but i havn't seen this. I have a 5-gallon batch being done in a normal fermentation bucket, and am worried the same thing will happen with this. any suggestions?
If you use a wine yeast to make cider then you won't be getting too much kreusen (foam). Right now your cider is very green and quite possibly not even done fermenting. Let it sit and it'll finish fermenting and clear up a bit. A secondary fermentation isn't exactly another fermentation. A secondary fermenter can be better explained as a bright tank that allows the wine/beer/cider time to condition and clear. Let it sit and let the yeast do their thing and it'll be fine.
Thanks. I will wait longer, my test batch was so makeshift, with hommade airlock, using a soda bottle, i don't trust it would get this far, but i will keep my 2nd test batch going. I am doing this so my real 1st big batch comes out reasonably good.
Did you check your specific gravities, before and after? Did the airlock bubble very much? Does it taste sweet & yeasty?
It might be that the apple juice/cider you chose has some preservatives in it, like potassium sorbate, which would kill the yeast.
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