Just a thought for any one concerned about there brew getting to cold and killing the yeast, I know I have commented on this in other posts, but this is the most extreme so far.
Went out to the shed where I keep my cider (it is up in a loft) and one of the fv's a water fountain bottle that I filled late in the year before I finished pressing. It had not got going very well and so I assume has not produced much alcohol. This morning after a couple of days of around freezing had turned it into what can best be described as a slush puppy, and the air lock was frozen solid.
So thinking it could do with a hand I brought it in to the house, it is not completely liquid yet but the yeast has woken up and is bubbling away better than I have seen it doing so since I started this fv.
For any one interested this yeast started out as a sachet of lavin ec1118 about ten, 5gal fv's and two 40gal barrels previously, I empty the sachet into the first fv and then just take 1/2 pint of liquid and pour in to the next one and so on for every subsequent one filled.
Went out to the shed where I keep my cider (it is up in a loft) and one of the fv's a water fountain bottle that I filled late in the year before I finished pressing. It had not got going very well and so I assume has not produced much alcohol. This morning after a couple of days of around freezing had turned it into what can best be described as a slush puppy, and the air lock was frozen solid.
So thinking it could do with a hand I brought it in to the house, it is not completely liquid yet but the yeast has woken up and is bubbling away better than I have seen it doing so since I started this fv.
For any one interested this yeast started out as a sachet of lavin ec1118 about ten, 5gal fv's and two 40gal barrels previously, I empty the sachet into the first fv and then just take 1/2 pint of liquid and pour in to the next one and so on for every subsequent one filled.
