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Thanks for the great idea! Ginger beer sounds like a great idea and I've now got a batch bubbling away. Ginger is a right b*gger to grate! But simple apart from that.

Thanks for the tip!

Hi all! In the thread about my problems getting fermentation started, I got the advice to try again with a starter. Luckily, the original fermentation started itself without the need for more yeast (see viewtopic.php?f=40&t=29934). So now I have a four pint starter which I could do something...

Thanks for the reply, I think you have to be correct. It's bubbling like crazy (like three times a second) like 18 hours later so no way is this anything other than fermentation. What I worry about is this: I know that stressful things (like sub-optimum temperatures) can result in damage to the...

OK so some stuff is happening now which seems highly weird to me so I hope someone can explain what the * is going on! To summarise the above posts, I had two failed yeast pitches in my apple juice, which I attribute to an accidental double dose with metabisulphite (vinsvavla = local equivalent...

I only had lemon, and on a hunch had just used half a fruit for a litre... which turns out to be pretty much exactly two fruit for a gallon :) thanks

I'm about to do this using sugar water (as have no juice except for the troublesome juice I can't get started). Quick question - got no pinch of citric acid, can I use a little lemon juice instead, and if so, how much? Cheers, Ben

Thanks Moley! I've realised how I make the mistake now. There are marks on the powder vial, marking every 2g. The woman in the shop said "one per 10 litres", and I interpretted it as 1 mark for 10 litres when it was actually 1g per 10 litres... Cheers, Ben

Thanks a lot for more advice! I find the thread in question, here it is for the record: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=7286 Looks like a good method for getting things going, I am trying this for sure.

Thanks a lot piddledribble, that sounds like a good plan. Make sure the yeast is really going in a starter before adding it. I am going to try this. Shame I can't get to the yeast shop until next week again now!

Hi all, I'm a bit miserable now because my second attempt at yeast pitching seems to have failed. I documented in this thread how my first pitching attempt failed. viewtopic.php?f=39&t=29401 I've got about 27 litres apple juice in a 30 litre bucket. Juiced it myself with a juicer, so there's...

Yup I have an airlock, setup looks like this: (sorry again being preventing from URLing). Temperature normal room temperature, about 21C I should think. Cheers, Ben

The yeast was the kind that comes with it's own activator - it has an inner capsule inside the outer packet, and when you break the inner packet, the yeast gets going. I know this worked because the outer packet started swelling a few hours after breaking the capsule: I'm not allowed to post a...

Thanks Rob!

Thanks for the advice folks. I did nothing and went away and apparently there is still no bubbling, but there does appear to be a layer of what looks very much like living yeast on top of the sediment. In the worst case scenario, and the yeast is really dead, the juice isn't going to go bad...

Hi all! I've got a 25 litre bucket full of apple juice, into which I pictched yeast almost three days ago. No bubbling in the airlock yet. I made the juice using a kitchen juicer so it has more sediment at the bottom than one would normally have, but it worked fine like this last time. On the...