Perry Worries

[foraged_plonker]

HI All,

I pressed my own perry for the first time this year. I have pressed cider for a few years and not had anything resembling the funny cauliflower like scum that formed in the primary.

The scum was white (clean white ) and resembled natural sponge in apearance (it floated too). I tried to smell it but then nearly passed ou from the CO2 build up!!

Is this a normal scum, I have seen lots of diffrent ones but nothing that looks as organic as this??

Any comments welcome.

 

[RobWalker]

any change in yeast? I tend not to ask questions until the bottling/kegging stage...

 

[foraged_plonker]

not that i can tell.

I usually treat cider woth CT in the bucket in which its collected from the press, then pitch yeast after 24 hrs.

I followed the same process but took advice and gave perry 48hrs before adding the yeast.

waited for the initial burst to die fack and then put in DJs. not massive amounts of sediment in the bucket, the perry looks ok and is bubbling nicely, just worried it may have soured?

 

[tazuk]

my big barrel of cider ie 140 ltr did not kick in at all i had to ad yeast nuturent now its going sweet :thumb: