thisissami
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Hi Everybody! I'm fermenting my first batch of cider right now, and ****ed up my sanitization in a number of ways.
The primary way in which I screwed up was that I felt weird about pouring my fresh apple juice (that I juiced myself!) into containers full of sanitary foam, and accordingly rinsed out the star san with tap water before putting said juice in my containers.
So... I have 2 different containers. One larger one that I put some champagne yeast into. I'm not too worried about that one, as I'm sure the yeast will overpower any contaminants in the water (I live in Vancouver, BC where the tap water is very clean on the scale of things).
The second (smaller) container, however, I am solely using the yeast from the skin of the apples. For those of you that are super experienced with fermentation - how likely do you think that this batch will get infected to the point of undrinkability? If there's consensus that the chances are super high... I'll just drink said juice now before it goes bad while it's fresh and simply delicious apple juice without alcohol.
The primary way in which I screwed up was that I felt weird about pouring my fresh apple juice (that I juiced myself!) into containers full of sanitary foam, and accordingly rinsed out the star san with tap water before putting said juice in my containers.
So... I have 2 different containers. One larger one that I put some champagne yeast into. I'm not too worried about that one, as I'm sure the yeast will overpower any contaminants in the water (I live in Vancouver, BC where the tap water is very clean on the scale of things).
The second (smaller) container, however, I am solely using the yeast from the skin of the apples. For those of you that are super experienced with fermentation - how likely do you think that this batch will get infected to the point of undrinkability? If there's consensus that the chances are super high... I'll just drink said juice now before it goes bad while it's fresh and simply delicious apple juice without alcohol.