It's a cold, raw day.
Too unpleasant to play outdoors.
So D suggested it was time to test the cider.
There are eight batches using various yeasts, including one of wild yeast.
Isn't the variety of shades and clarity interesting!
Here they are lined up in letter order - G is missing, because it was not decanted earlier.
Chris gave us a sample sanitizer to use - worked well - you need to have killed all the wild yeasts before you add the wine or beer yeasts. He also gave us a siphon to get the liquid from the five-gallon pails to bottles. D siphoned these a month ago. At that time, they all tasted either beery or like regular cider - some yeasts work slower than others.
Some are quite fizzy!!! Others are still.
This one had to be opened and reclosed several times before we could safely pour it.
This was much more fun than playing outside today!
Too unpleasant to play outdoors.
So D suggested it was time to test the cider.
There are eight batches using various yeasts, including one of wild yeast.
Isn't the variety of shades and clarity interesting!
Here they are lined up in letter order - G is missing, because it was not decanted earlier.
Chris gave us a sample sanitizer to use - worked well - you need to have killed all the wild yeasts before you add the wine or beer yeasts. He also gave us a siphon to get the liquid from the five-gallon pails to bottles. D siphoned these a month ago. At that time, they all tasted either beery or like regular cider - some yeasts work slower than others.
Some are quite fizzy!!! Others are still.
This one had to be opened and reclosed several times before we could safely pour it.
This was much more fun than playing outside today!
In case you are wondering, these are water bottles left over from the power outage during Irene .
