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Subject: Cider Digest #1240, 17 July 2005
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Cider Digest #1240 17 July 2005
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
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Re: Loooong ferments (Tim Bray)
S.G. ("Silver Creek Cyder Co.")
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Subject: Re: Loooong ferments
From: Tim Bray <tbray@mcn.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:44:37 -0700
>What I'd find surprising if I had fermentation go that slowly is not having
>the cider go "off" in one way or another before the alcohol started to come
>up to some useful level.
I worried about that a lot, especially with the 71B batch that took over a
month to get started. But so far, no obvious nastiness.
>Did you perhaps sulfite a bit too much? I'm asking because that would
>protect the juice from various other beasties and also slow down the yeast
>a bunch.
I had exactly the same suspicion. I mixed a 5% solution, then calculated
the dose to yield 50 ppm in 5 gal, and added that to the top of each
carboy. So the sulfite concentration at the top would have been high; down
at the bottom, not so much. I couldn't get a good pH reading with the
stupid strips, but the TA was only around 0.5%. I use sulfite mainly to
suppress mold, which only grows on the surface (where the oxygen is), and
to help precipitate solids.
Cheers,
Tim
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Subject: S.G.
From: "Silver Creek Cyder Co." <silverckcyder@austarnet.com.au>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:06:31 +1000
Question???
What effect doe's suspended solids and airation have on Hydromentre
readings in must, as both have a direct effect on the density of the
liquid.
And, if there is a profound change in S.G. resulting from this, has
anyone out-there calculated, charted, plottd or even noticed the
changes.
To those more learned than I, this might seem like kindergarten stuff,
but as I have never heard, or read of this, maybe its not such a dumb
question after all.
Cydering on
Dave Orson
Silver Creek Cyder.
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