Sebass
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Good afternoon friends. I started my first ever batch of hard apple cider.
I have added 1 1/4 cup of white sugar per gallon of cider. I DID NOT DISSOLVE THE sugar in water first. It's settled at the bottom.
Will the yeast still find it and eat it and dissolve on it's own to create more alcohol then from juice sugar itself ? I'm going for ~12 ABV alcohol content.
I didn't want to dilute the cider and also potentially contaminate the batch with cooking the water in some pot. Just went easy route and my thinking is yeast will find food if it's hungry on bottom of the bottle?
I activated redstar premier blanc yeast in water and activated great. One bottle 30 min in started bubbling. Other two so far are not but patience is the key.
I'm planning to add to final product 100% juice apple/cherry from frozen concentrate and then bottle. I'm still not sure about how cheaply stop yeast from growing in bottles.
Also question on airlocks. I have filled airlock two compartments to max fill line HOWEVER the bottom portion of pipe that connects to rubber top contains no water whatsoever. Basically only those two twisty compartments are filled with water and rest is just air. It was hard to fill any other way.
Is that ok or the whole airlock up to max line needs to be filled with water?
I have added 1 1/4 cup of white sugar per gallon of cider. I DID NOT DISSOLVE THE sugar in water first. It's settled at the bottom.
Will the yeast still find it and eat it and dissolve on it's own to create more alcohol then from juice sugar itself ? I'm going for ~12 ABV alcohol content.
I didn't want to dilute the cider and also potentially contaminate the batch with cooking the water in some pot. Just went easy route and my thinking is yeast will find food if it's hungry on bottom of the bottle?
I activated redstar premier blanc yeast in water and activated great. One bottle 30 min in started bubbling. Other two so far are not but patience is the key.
I'm planning to add to final product 100% juice apple/cherry from frozen concentrate and then bottle. I'm still not sure about how cheaply stop yeast from growing in bottles.
Also question on airlocks. I have filled airlock two compartments to max fill line HOWEVER the bottom portion of pipe that connects to rubber top contains no water whatsoever. Basically only those two twisty compartments are filled with water and rest is just air. It was hard to fill any other way.
Is that ok or the whole airlock up to max line needs to be filled with water?
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