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The yeast says it is good until 2024 but here's a picture of it, it seems to be made of two different compounds (yeasts?) and my black gritty bits looks suspiciously like the grey parts of the mix..

"Some of them will be correct" love it! This is the internet after all!

Thank you for your reply! It's a thought but in one of my containers it has only been going a week and has definitely not been cold. I am not sure that the 'wine diamonds' could form in such a short time. I would still welcome anyone's thoughts on this but I just looked on Amazon at the 1...

Hi all, Two years ago I thought i might make some cider, a few people gave me apples and I never got around to it and the apples all went rotten. Last year the same people who naturally assumed that i had been successful gave me LOTS of apples and this time a friend and I spent a couple of...

Sorry, this shouldn't be an afterthought but thank you to anyone who spots this and is able to help. I started making cider last summer and have loads of apples lined up for this year. Enjoying making and sharing and drinking the stuff!

Did anyone ever work out what this was caused by? I have 5 separate containers all carefully sterilised and all started on different days, all with the same black grit in the bottom. The only common thing is the yeast which is Young's super wine yeast.