Cheap_Bastid
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So I decided to get my feet wet so to speak with a batch of apple cider since it looked simple enough..
My recipe:
4 gal Sam's club (members mark) apple juice
5 cans apple juice concentrate
1.5(ish)lbs cane sugar
topped up with a little water
OG: 1.061
Yeast: WLP720 (loved the smell of it when i pitched)
Pitched direct @78° with 1.5 tsp fermaid K
Less than an hr later (within 30 mins probably) it was fermenting, rather vigorously..
I'm glad I went with a blow off tube instead of an air lock because a little krausen
made it into the tube, it rocked 'n rolled for 3 days (1+ bubble per second from a 3/4" blow off tube).
It's now at day 7 and the bubble rate (which i know isn't really an indicator of anything substantial)
is like one every 90 seconds or so..
Should I exercise some patience and leave it alone til I see no more air lock activity and then take a reading?
Rack into secondary, add a little more fermaid? leave it alone?...
Everything I read about WLP720 made it sound like a pretty slow starter and I was kind of shocked lol.
I was prepared for a 4 week fermentation (maybe it still has a ways to go?)
My recipe:
4 gal Sam's club (members mark) apple juice
5 cans apple juice concentrate
1.5(ish)lbs cane sugar
topped up with a little water
OG: 1.061
Yeast: WLP720 (loved the smell of it when i pitched)
Pitched direct @78° with 1.5 tsp fermaid K
Less than an hr later (within 30 mins probably) it was fermenting, rather vigorously..
I'm glad I went with a blow off tube instead of an air lock because a little krausen
made it into the tube, it rocked 'n rolled for 3 days (1+ bubble per second from a 3/4" blow off tube).
It's now at day 7 and the bubble rate (which i know isn't really an indicator of anything substantial)
is like one every 90 seconds or so..
Should I exercise some patience and leave it alone til I see no more air lock activity and then take a reading?
Rack into secondary, add a little more fermaid? leave it alone?...
Everything I read about WLP720 made it sound like a pretty slow starter and I was kind of shocked lol.
I was prepared for a 4 week fermentation (maybe it still has a ways to go?)