Update Started 5/9/14 at OG 1.080 and at 5/11/14 it's at 1.030 it is fermenting like crazy. Poured a glass today to taste it and it taste great the way it is! Great foam head on it as well. Picture below (btw I will be putting it in a keg to carbonize it)
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What is apple cider acidity level supposed to be at? Mine is 62.5% tartaric acid/4.0 ppt sulfuric. Tested with titration acid. I know fruit wines are supposed to be at 55%-65% would this be a fruit wine?... :o
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Well all of my wines have always been young wines.. So they go by pretty quick, and always used one gallons so went by even quicker. This is my first 5 gallon batch so I think I will be able to age this
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I took the old off and put a towel over it. It does make since, it's a living organism and just like us we need air to survive as well. I'm surprised I haven't had any problems with this..
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Yeah I've heard people saying no don't use the towel just use airlock. Others say use towel.. I'll do some reading. I have always used the airlock. And it comes out fine but I'll try this and see what happensn
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MY primary bucket has a air leak so bad that the airlock isn't even bubbling unless I shake the bucket and FORCE co2 to rise
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Okay so I opened the lid on my primary bucket because their was no bubbling on my air lock. I opened it and it has started fermenting, wow it has an amazing smell, I took a hydrometer reading just to see how fast it's been going and I started around 1pm yesterday it was 1.080 and today at 9am it...