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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
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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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