Hi all,
This is my first time brewing anything. I started off making a hard cider from my parents’ Apple tree. I bought a apple crusher/presser and got about 4 gallons of juice. I added this to my 5 gallon carboy plus 4 campden tablets, and let it sit 4 days. I added one more gallon of pasteurized apple cider from the store plus Cider House Select yeast. Fermentation seemed to go fine—it eventually died down and I let it sit for a little bit before racking. I racked about a month and a half after pitching. All equipment was washed and then sanitized with iodophor and hot water, let it sit for a half hour before using… during racking I split off a little to a glass and it tasted good. Initial gravity was 1.048 and final gravity during racking was 0.999. Well about 10 days after racking (it’s day 12 now) I noticed lots of little white spots floating on top. I assume this is bad, and something must have contaminated it. I’m not sure where I screwed up, but it must have been during racking. I’m attaching a photo if that helps. But I really want to know—is there any way to save this while I’ve caught it kinda early? Can I add more campden tablets now? Is there a way to sterile filter it?
This is my first time brewing anything. I started off making a hard cider from my parents’ Apple tree. I bought a apple crusher/presser and got about 4 gallons of juice. I added this to my 5 gallon carboy plus 4 campden tablets, and let it sit 4 days. I added one more gallon of pasteurized apple cider from the store plus Cider House Select yeast. Fermentation seemed to go fine—it eventually died down and I let it sit for a little bit before racking. I racked about a month and a half after pitching. All equipment was washed and then sanitized with iodophor and hot water, let it sit for a half hour before using… during racking I split off a little to a glass and it tasted good. Initial gravity was 1.048 and final gravity during racking was 0.999. Well about 10 days after racking (it’s day 12 now) I noticed lots of little white spots floating on top. I assume this is bad, and something must have contaminated it. I’m not sure where I screwed up, but it must have been during racking. I’m attaching a photo if that helps. But I really want to know—is there any way to save this while I’ve caught it kinda early? Can I add more campden tablets now? Is there a way to sterile filter it?