Apple Cider

We started our first batch of apple cider back in November - we just put the juice in a carboy and let it perk away... our house gets down to about 62 degrees at night, 70 in the day. It's still perking away - slowly as it's cool. Any idea just how long we'll be watching this?? And how does apple cider taste?

TIA

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Cathy Boer
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Cathy - I made apple/pear cider this fall. One of the members of the KC Cellarmaster winemaking club has a crusher and we all brought fruit and took home jucie. I used White Labs English Cider yeast and it took about 5 weeks for complete fermentation...had to stop a spontaneous malo-lactic fermentation with Lysozyme. Mine tastes a lot like commercial examples. Pick up some cans of cider and this will give you an idea of what to expect.

Bill Frazier Olathe, Kansas USA

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William Frazier

There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of styles of hard cider. They are all idfferent. Could not guess what yours will taste like. Did you increase the sugar to make it into a wine style or did you just ferment the sugar that was there. Are you planning on a sparking style or flat. You might sweeten it or drink it dry.

But, that is a long time to ferment. Apple usually goes pretty quick. You might give us a bit more information. It might need some nutrient or it may need to be warmed up a bit to let it take off.

Ray

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Ray Calvert

I once had an Apple cider that fermented for about 4 months.

It went from alcoholic to malo-lactic fermentation. Apple has a lot of apple-acid (duh !!!) so there is the reason why malo latic can occur.

Did you use sulphite ??? Did you measure the SG ??? If the SG is below 1000 than you might have malo-lactic going on and adding a bit extra sulphite will stop this fermentation.

Luc

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Luc Volders

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