This post may better fit in the yeast forum but for now this one seems the best fit.
Given a limited crop of muscadines (that I didn't have to brawl with bees for anyway) and a really really old asian/english pear hybrid I decided what the hell and made a pear cider supplemented with muscadines and sugar.
After a couple days of billowing clouds of pulp it apparently didn't appreciate and a few more days of bubbling it has had an identity crisis and now is bubbling backwards into the sealed fermentation vessel. Has anyone seen anything like that (or alternatively are my search skills that pathetic?)?
I don't worry about lack of airlock activity typically and the smell when it was very pleasant so the wife will likely not give me grief even leaving it for as long as it takes but should I be concerned about reverse airlock activity?
Am using Lalvin 71B-1122 and pectic enzyme as well if it matters.
Given a limited crop of muscadines (that I didn't have to brawl with bees for anyway) and a really really old asian/english pear hybrid I decided what the hell and made a pear cider supplemented with muscadines and sugar.
After a couple days of billowing clouds of pulp it apparently didn't appreciate and a few more days of bubbling it has had an identity crisis and now is bubbling backwards into the sealed fermentation vessel. Has anyone seen anything like that (or alternatively are my search skills that pathetic?)?
I don't worry about lack of airlock activity typically and the smell when it was very pleasant so the wife will likely not give me grief even leaving it for as long as it takes but should I be concerned about reverse airlock activity?
Am using Lalvin 71B-1122 and pectic enzyme as well if it matters.