Houdini0001
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if you couldn't tell from the title I'm pretty friggin excited.. Youtube got me hooked on Brewing..
So I ordered some supplies online from "western something" FINALLY received my order. purchased
10 packs of yeast
2-(1)gal jugs
4 "S" airlocks
4 3pc airlocks
I had 2 plastic PET carboys here but the tops are way bigger than the recommended #6 stoppers I ordered.
So I went to the grocery outlet and bought 2 (1gal) apple ciders and 2 (aprox 1ltr) pear / apple / grape, I watched a lot of youtube videos on ciders and a few of them said that pear juice added to brews and ciders made the taste less bitter and smoother, so I decided to try it (maybe a bit too adventurous for a first timer but what the hell..
So last night I took 1 gal of cider and 1 of the ltrs of pear and the two 1 gal jugs. boiled all my stuff cause I was to dumb to think about ordering sanitizer my first order.. go figure..
So I take half the cider and put it into a sauce pan, the rest I pour into the jugs. I add 4tsps of all spice, 2 tsps. of Cinnamon, 1 1/2 cups of regular sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar, and bring it to a slight boil. Add that to the jugs, and then split the pear juice into the two jugs. shake and shake and shake.. I mostly noticed that those that were successful on there fermenting shaked the hell out of the jugs just before adding the yeast.
For the yeast I added 1/2 teaspoon "Red Star Pasteur Champagne" yeast to 1 cup of 100degree water, and 1 teaspoon table sugar. I did this in two glasses (because I have two jugs DOH!) lol
So like I said shake the hell out of it.. so I shook both jugs again just to be sure I shook them good enough, and added the yeast to both of them. Yes there was slight activity in both glasses of yeast, I had just made them I did not let them sit and ferment up a lot. I put the stoppers on, I am trying one jug with the "S" airlock and the other with the 3pcs airlock. I put vodka in both airlocks.
This was about midnight last night I did this
So far this morning at 10am I have action in the bottles..
I WAS SO FRIGGIN SCARED! I look and see this black stuff big clumps of it.. of course the room is slightly lit up. SO I internet search and search .. oh and did I mention I SEARCHED!!
NOTHING on searching for clumps of black in Cider.. I finally in a panic take one of the jugs to the kitchen so I can look at it better thinking I'm going to half to rebottle then after only 12 hours!
(DOH!! I am pretty sure its just the spices that I put in combined with some of the growing yeast, they keep falling, and rising.. and everything looks great.. and they are just brownish pictures below..)
I took some pics.. I'm going to try to add them but not sure it is also my first post! LOL Here goes..
Oh BTW I sampled the stuff I cooked on the stove.. the flavors were almost perfect to that of the Mcminamins flavored Cider. YUM!! I cant wait to try the hard stuff..
ok pics...
Those bottles under the jugs on the next shelf down are the Cider and Pear juice I used.
Hope you all enjoy my first timer story, will update on the progress..
I'm thinking about 8-14 days?? any suggestions?
I'm going to try some on Halloween no matter what... that will be day 9.5...
So I ordered some supplies online from "western something" FINALLY received my order. purchased
10 packs of yeast
2-(1)gal jugs
4 "S" airlocks
4 3pc airlocks
I had 2 plastic PET carboys here but the tops are way bigger than the recommended #6 stoppers I ordered.
So I went to the grocery outlet and bought 2 (1gal) apple ciders and 2 (aprox 1ltr) pear / apple / grape, I watched a lot of youtube videos on ciders and a few of them said that pear juice added to brews and ciders made the taste less bitter and smoother, so I decided to try it (maybe a bit too adventurous for a first timer but what the hell..
So last night I took 1 gal of cider and 1 of the ltrs of pear and the two 1 gal jugs. boiled all my stuff cause I was to dumb to think about ordering sanitizer my first order.. go figure..
So I take half the cider and put it into a sauce pan, the rest I pour into the jugs. I add 4tsps of all spice, 2 tsps. of Cinnamon, 1 1/2 cups of regular sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar, and bring it to a slight boil. Add that to the jugs, and then split the pear juice into the two jugs. shake and shake and shake.. I mostly noticed that those that were successful on there fermenting shaked the hell out of the jugs just before adding the yeast.
For the yeast I added 1/2 teaspoon "Red Star Pasteur Champagne" yeast to 1 cup of 100degree water, and 1 teaspoon table sugar. I did this in two glasses (because I have two jugs DOH!) lol
So like I said shake the hell out of it.. so I shook both jugs again just to be sure I shook them good enough, and added the yeast to both of them. Yes there was slight activity in both glasses of yeast, I had just made them I did not let them sit and ferment up a lot. I put the stoppers on, I am trying one jug with the "S" airlock and the other with the 3pcs airlock. I put vodka in both airlocks.
This was about midnight last night I did this
So far this morning at 10am I have action in the bottles..
I WAS SO FRIGGIN SCARED! I look and see this black stuff big clumps of it.. of course the room is slightly lit up. SO I internet search and search .. oh and did I mention I SEARCHED!!
NOTHING on searching for clumps of black in Cider.. I finally in a panic take one of the jugs to the kitchen so I can look at it better thinking I'm going to half to rebottle then after only 12 hours!
(DOH!! I am pretty sure its just the spices that I put in combined with some of the growing yeast, they keep falling, and rising.. and everything looks great.. and they are just brownish pictures below..)
I took some pics.. I'm going to try to add them but not sure it is also my first post! LOL Here goes..
Oh BTW I sampled the stuff I cooked on the stove.. the flavors were almost perfect to that of the Mcminamins flavored Cider. YUM!! I cant wait to try the hard stuff..
ok pics...
Those bottles under the jugs on the next shelf down are the Cider and Pear juice I used.
Hope you all enjoy my first timer story, will update on the progress..
I'm thinking about 8-14 days?? any suggestions?
I'm going to try some on Halloween no matter what... that will be day 9.5...