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Cider Digest #0085
Subject: Cider Digest #85 Sat Dec 7 18:00:05 EST 1991
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 91 18:00:06 EST
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Cider Digest #85 Sat Dec 7 18:00:05 EST 1991
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator
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Re: Sodium Benzoate vs. yeast (Roger Korn)
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 91 13:10:39 PST
From: korn@cadre.com (Roger Korn)
Subject: Re: Sodium Benzoate vs. yeast
I submitted a request for help on starting some raspberry cider involving cider
that had been *preserved* with .1% benzoate of soda. The first and second attemp
ts used Red Star Epernay II, a yeast that had been very good with raw cider. Not
hing: no bubbles and the SG sat at 1.058 for three weeks.
The folks at Steinbarts, the local homebrew shop here in Portland, said "just ke
ep pitchin". Well, about 2 weeks ago, I threw in some Telford ale yeast and now
fermentation has (slowly) begun, dropping about .008 per week.
I'll let you know where fermentation stops - I hope in the mid-teens, so we don'
t get too dry. (Hard to get too dry around here :-)
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