Cider Digest #0201

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· 6 months ago

Subject: Juice analysis / camden difficulty 
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 08:53:41 MDT 
From: abirenbo@rigel.cel.scg.hac.com (Aaron Birenboim) 

   Well, i am still pressing apples, although i got 10 gallons 
this weekend.  I did some analysis on my two apple sources as follows: 

   My red macintosh-ish looking apples: 
           O.G.  1.044 
           acid  0.4 % as tartaric 
           pH    3.9 

   My neighbors little yellow bumpy apples (brown dots stick out of yellow 
        skin) : 
           O.G.  1.072 
           acid  1.4 % as tartaric 
           pH    3.2 

   Those tittle bumpy yellow things sure have a lot of everything! 
It looks like a blend of slightly less than 1 gallon of "yellow" 
apple juice with just over 4 gal of my "sweet" juice will give 
me the desited acid level of about 0.55 %.   

   Obne question: 

        I took acidity AFTER sulphiting.  Will the camden effect the acid 
   titration?  (do it form H2SO4 or something?) 

Also..  like chris i'm having a tough time getting ferments going 
after camden addition.  The first 5 gal batch i pressed showed no 
activity 1 week after pitching (which was 2 days after sulphiting). 
I aerated a bit, and re pitched.... i got minimal activity. 
Now its going full guns... almost 3 weeks after the initial pitching! 

  I also have 1 gal of concord wine which i started with pasteurized  
concord juice.... no action 1 week later.  Do the sulphite gods hate me? 
Might i be doing something wrong?   How can i ensure a helathy ferment with 
the 10 galons i made this weekend?  (I have starters going all over 
the house!) 

  Oh...  just for grins, I am doing most of the cider with WYEAST 
european ale, since it is low-attenuation.  I will be doing 5 gallons 
on S. Delbreuckii (the bavarian wheat wild yeast) for a clove flavor 
cider.  (it sound good to me!) 

    aTdHvAaNnKcSe, 

              aaron 

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 10:10:37 EDT 
From: pry@matrx.matrix.com (Paul Young) 
Subject: Zymurgy article on cider 

Can somebody please post (or email) a copy of the oft-quoted "Zymurgy article 
on cider"?  Apparently this is a highly respected source of info. 

Paul Young 
pry@matrix.com 

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