I decided that wheter its good or not, its not going to get any closer to being cider in the primary fermentation. So I bought a sipon and cleansed it with the suflite cleanser, along with a couple of apple juice bottles I held onto from TCS, and a 1 gallon jug from the Country Cider Mill. Maybe it’ll be a good omen. Then I cleaned up the primary and left it soaking with some sulfite in it. Its ready for Doyle, or barring that, the mid november batch, hereby labeled MNB.

I still owe doyle some bucks from the outing yesterday, I might just go ahead and buy him some apples.
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More Cider links:

http://valencerecipes.blogspot.com/2007/10/make-your-own-hard-cider.html

http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=94651&start=0

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/slow-stuck-fermentation-cider-barrel-172577/

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/1st-attempt-hard-apple-cider-80602/

http://www.cider.org.uk/

a good argument against using plastic bottles:
http://www.cider.org.uk/frameset.htm

you will never lose a batch racking too early, but you can loose a batch leaving it on the lees too long.

I always leave my cider in primary for a month, don’t ask me why but it has always yielded excellent results!

1: Stir it up.

2: add yeast nutrient