Submitted 21 hours ago by GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
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My first alcoholic ferment in 1.5 years. When 100% juice is on sale, I get a couple of bottles for a gallon of cider. (yes they’re ciders, they’re all apple juice based despite the tropical label.)
1 gal juice, half packet of US05, 1tsp nutrient, see ya in 2 weeks.
Give us some details please. What was your method?
Wait for juice to go on sale. Make sure it has no preservatives. Empty into sanitized bucket. Add yeast and nutrient. Stir. Wait.
Finding a juice that doesn’t have preservatives sounds like quite a challenge
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve had trouble with the preservatives in bottled juice killing my yeast. How do you avoid that?
MuteDog@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m not OP but the best way to deal with things like sulfite or benzoate in juice is to oxygenate the heck out of the juice. Either with an oxygen set up or just stirring a LOT of air into it before you pitch your yeast and then keep on stirring the heck out of it when you have a chance for the first few days of fermentation.
Oxygen will help neutralize the preservatives and the yeast also use it to reproduce.
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Sweet, thanks. I’ll have to try that next time apple cider is on sale. I want to make an apple brandy, but store cider isblike 1/5 the cost of good cider mill cider
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
There are no preservatives in this brand. Honestly it’s very rare for me to find them in the 100% juice. I see them in the soda or fake juices (sunny d type).