Cider Digest #0605

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Subject: Cider Digest #605, 11 July 1996 
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Cider Digest #605                                         11 July 1996 

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Contents: 
  Cold Cider - Slow (Dead?) Ferment (Robert Hook) 

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Subject: Cold Cider - Slow (Dead?) Ferment 
From: rhook@gil.com.au (Robert Hook) 
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:25:45 +1000 

G'day. A week ago I put down another batch of Bride's Surprise Cider. The 
only thing I didn't think about was that it was COLD downstairs where my 
fermenting vessel lives - it's been floating at about 6-10 degrees Celsius. 
There's been very little activity (none, actually) in the airlock, unlike 
the last batch, so I've brought it upstairs, plonked it in front of the 
heater and tried to bring it back up to around the 20 degree mark. However 
it still looks pretty still. I have two questions: 

1) If the wort chilled down to about 6 degrees within hours of pitching, is 
the yeast likely to be dead? 

2) Would the results be foul if I tossed in some generic beer yeast that 
I've got on hand, to kick the process back to life? 

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Remember - the Oxen are slow, but the Earth is patient. 

mailto:rhook@gil.com.au 
http://www.gil.com.au/~rhook/rah.html 
Robert Hook 
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 

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