| date | step | volume | temp | gravity (corrected) |
notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-10-20 | make starter | 1.50 l | 68 f | ~900ml of pressure-canned apple juice + ~600 ml of fresh apple juice. Simethicone drops. Stir plate + foil. Grown until Saturday (2011-10-22) morning, cold-crashed, but very slowly. Decanted ~600 ml, saved remaining in quart mason jar, foil, rubberband. | |
| 2011-10-22 | buy ingredients | 5.00 gl | 5g apple juice collected, treated with 5/8tsp K-metabisulfite overnight. | ||
| 2011-10-23 20:45 EDT | pitch | 5.00 gl | 65 f | 1.047 | 2 tsp yeast nutrient. 10 drops simethicone. foil top. |
| 2011-10-29 | gravity sample | 62 f | 1.022 | ||
| 2011-10-31 | gravity sample | 1.022 | |||
| 2011-11-05 | gravity sample | 60 f | 1.022 | ||
| 2011-11-12 19:37 EST | gravity sample | 1.020 | Not much movement. | ||
| 2011-11-17 18:38 EST | gravity sample | 60 f | 1.020 | ||
| 2011-11-20 | primary fermentation | Fermentation has picked up at a vigorous pace at some point in the last week; the cider is visibly whiter/chalky, and there is a fresh layer of krausen (and a ring), as well as visible and audible bubbles. Dunno what changed; ambient basement temps are dropping, if anything. | |||
| 2011-12-05 | gravity sample | 0.9962 | |||
| 2011-12-11 | gravity sample | Added 2.5 tsp K.Sorbate and 0.5 tsp K.Metabi. to arrest fermentation. | |||
| 2012-01-02 | kegged | 5.00 gl | 1.006 | Kegged into "A"; added ~1 lb of honey. ~15 psi @ ~40°F ~~ 2.5 volumes. | |
| 2012-01-21 | conditioning | Racked 4 gallons into sanitized ale pail, moved to garage. | |||
| 2012-02-06 | aging | Split 4g into 2g in two buckets to promote freezing. | |||
| 2012-02-11 | aging | 1.75 gl | -17°C overnight, pulled about 2.5g of slushy ice out of both buckets, recombined: ~1.75g applejack remaining. | ||
| 2012-02-13 | aging | 0.75 gl | -14°c overnight, pulled about 1.5g of slushy ice out. | ||
| 2012-02-19 | bottled | Went into 3 750ml, 1 ~335 ml bottles. |