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Last weekend I went to a local pick-your-own fruit farm that has a range of cider apple trees. I picked a total of about 12.5kg (for a tenner, which I didn’t think was too bad) of cider apples. About 40% were Ashton bittersweet, 40% Michelin and 20% Dabinet. On Friday afternoon I had some...

Hey all, I drank my first bottle of homebrew cider last night, which turned out great. I just wanted to check my method and ask a few questions. Ok, here’s what I did: I used Tesco’s cheap from concentrate apple juice, at a great price of £3.40 for 4 litres. I added it to a sterilised...

Almost exactly the same thing happened to me last week! I tried two times to get it started (using Wilkinsons ale yeast) and nothing worked. After a week and a half the SG was the same (1.049). I tried a third and final time with Young's cider yeast. I warmed a small amount of water in a jug and...

Ok, so I went to a local homebrew shop on Friday afternoon and got some Young's Cider Yeast in a last ditch atempt to get the second batch going after about two weeks with no activity. I put about 250ml of warm water in jug with a spoonful of sugar and half the yeast. After about an hour I added...

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Ok, so last night I took hydrometer readings of both batches. Batch 1 has gone from a starting 1.052 to 1.001, has slowed right down to 1 bubble ever 35-40 seconds and has begun to settle. Yippe!! :drunk: Batch 2 has the same SG as when I started, although it does seem to produce a bubble...

I didn't add yeast nutrient to either batch, no. I have been doing quite a lot of reading since and purchased some nutrients ready in case I decide to try again. I'm also really pleased to hear that this might stop the smell lol. The temperature in the house is between 20-24 typically, although...

Baz, Thanks for the advice- I'm starting to understand that brewing is just as much of an art as it is a science lol. Hopefully it'll stop within the next few days, and then I can wait for it to settle and then I'll give it a taste, which is quite a scary thought for some reason :lol:

Hey everyone :) Over the last week and a bit I have been brewing my first ever batches of cider (first ever batches of anything, actually!). I'm starting to think it's gone a bit wrong, so I'm just after a bit of advice if it has (or reassurance if everything's ok!). I've tried to keep my...

Hey everyone :) I'm Carl from Somerset. Never done any brewing of any kind until about a couple weeks ago when I started my first cider :D It's currently happily bubbling away (although it does smell terrible!) and is at about 5.3% so far. Can't wait to have a taste of it when it's ready :drunk: