Cider Digest #0073

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Subject: Cider Digest #73 Mon Nov 25 11:00:06 EST 1991 
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 11:00:08 EST 
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Cider Digest #73          Mon Nov 25 11:00:07 EST 1991 
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator 

Contents: 
  Cider and glass (gkushmer) 

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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 9:35:04 EST 
From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu 
Subject: Cider and glass 

I think all of my posts are suffering from "subject and subject" disease  
in the subject line :-) 

I went to Grossman's and bought a jug of Muriatic Acid (or some such spelling) 
and, amazingly enough, didn't get any on myself or my clothing.  I filled 
the bottom of my old carboy with it and within the space of an hour, Mr. 
Rust spot had vanished. 

BTW - someone told me to get that acid. It's a diluted (though still strong) 
HCl. 

As for the cider, I took a taste test.  No bacterial infection, and the first 
thing that came to mind was the time I was in Portugal and bought five liters 
of wine (in one of those plastic wicker jugs) for a dollar and drank it on  
the beach with four travelling companions.   

In other words: dry and strong.  But it did have a residual apple aftertaste. 

What I've done now is added a gallon of water with four cups of cane sugar. I 
boiled and cooled it before I threw it in.  Within 24 hours, the yeast was 
reactivated and going at it - this following four days of inactivity before 
I added the sugar-water. 

So we'll see.  Maybe it'll be worth drinking so long as it doesn't bring 
me back to Portugal and make me climb a mud cliff in the rain at night. . . 

- --gk 

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