Cider Digest #1939

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Subject: Cider Digest #1939, 4 February 2015 
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Cider Digest #1939                                         4 February 2015 

                 Cider and Perry Discussion Forum 

Contents: 
  Re: Back sweetening (Nat West) 
  Re: cidermaking and mead (Paul Shouse) 
  What equipment is needed to fill a 5lb CO2 tank from a 20lb CO2 (denniswal...) 

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Subject: Re: Back sweetening 
From: Nat West <natjwest@gmail.com> 
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:07:56 -0800 

> Subject: Back sweetening 
> From: Andrew Lea <andrew@harphill.co.uk> 
> ... 
> If you are using AJC, be aware that this is not sterile. It contains 
> osmo-tolerant and preservative-resistant yeasts such as 
> Zygosaccharomyces baillii which will have a field day in your cider! 

Andrew, I don't think you're saying that all AJC contains Zygo baillii? 
What if the AJC is made from pasteurized juice and kept cold (assuming the 
pasteurization of the juice is "good"). Is it widely common for Zygo to 
appear in AJC? 

- -Nat West, Portland Oregon 

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Subject: Re: cidermaking and mead 
From: Paul Shouse <paulhshouse@gmail.com> 
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 09:54:53 +0900 

I am aware that this is not the best place to discuss mead apart from how 
it figures in cyser, if even then, but I was responding to a direct 
question. I'm now a mead-maker who has made several experiments with cyser 
with creditable (in most cases) results, but I AM here to learn about 
cider. Apologies are in order, I'll confine myself to listening until I 
have actually made a cider. 

Thanks. 

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Subject: What equipment is needed to fill a 5lb CO2 tank from a 20lb CO2 
From: denniswaller@comcast.net 
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:05:16 +0000 (UTC) 

Does anyone know which equipment will enable you to safely charge a 5lb 
CO2 tank from a 20lb CO2 tank? In this area it is proportionately much 
more expensive to fill the 5lb tank than the 20lb tank. 
Dennis Waller 
denniswaller@comcast.net 

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