AJCider
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Hello everyone, it's good to join this community! I was an avid beer drinker until one day I woke up and was suddenly fat. Ok not suddenly, but it happened. Anyway, I decided to adopt a paleo lifestyle, and that meant no more beer. Technically no alcohol of any kind, but after much research I found that on a scale of 1 to omfgwheatbelly, cider is as close to 1 as I'm going to get.
But wow, it's expensive. At the distributor.
Noodling around online led me to random discussion about home brewing, and that led me here to this wonderful place! I devoured nearly every thread, ordered a starter kit from Midwest, and off I went. On the 7th I put together my very first attempt at a brew. I used Edwort's apfelvein thread as my basis, with some of the suggestions that sounded good further down in the thread. So here is what I did
5 gallons of musselmans cider (I could not find tree top juice anywhere here but read online at several sources that this one is fermentable)
1 packet of red star montrachet yeast
2 lbs of brown sugar (again, all i could find)
And... after four days... this is the result
; ; that doesn't look right at all to me. The room it's in is about 66 degrees, and I ended up moving it closer to the heat source because I thought maybe it wasn't bubbling because it was too cold.
Should I just toss this batch?
I thought I had done everything right - I use Starsan and soaked the heck out of EVERYTHING, including my hands, but now I'm wondering what I introduced into my cider attempt.
Thoughts? Thanks!
EDIT: I moved it to another room where I can hopefully better control the temp and this happened
Now it looks weird and patchy with that white stuff.
This is stressful!
But wow, it's expensive. At the distributor.
Noodling around online led me to random discussion about home brewing, and that led me here to this wonderful place! I devoured nearly every thread, ordered a starter kit from Midwest, and off I went. On the 7th I put together my very first attempt at a brew. I used Edwort's apfelvein thread as my basis, with some of the suggestions that sounded good further down in the thread. So here is what I did
5 gallons of musselmans cider (I could not find tree top juice anywhere here but read online at several sources that this one is fermentable)
1 packet of red star montrachet yeast
2 lbs of brown sugar (again, all i could find)
And... after four days... this is the result
; ; that doesn't look right at all to me. The room it's in is about 66 degrees, and I ended up moving it closer to the heat source because I thought maybe it wasn't bubbling because it was too cold.
Should I just toss this batch?
I thought I had done everything right - I use Starsan and soaked the heck out of EVERYTHING, including my hands, but now I'm wondering what I introduced into my cider attempt.
Thoughts? Thanks!
EDIT: I moved it to another room where I can hopefully better control the temp and this happened
Now it looks weird and patchy with that white stuff.
This is stressful!