{"id":2457,"date":"2010-11-07T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2010-11-07T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:00:03","slug":"stop-in-for-a-half-or-a-gallon-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Stop in for a half.  Or a gallon and a half."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I still owe doyle some bucks from the outing yesterday, I might just go ahead and buy him some apples.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>More Cider links:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/valencerecipes.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/make-your-own-hard-cider.html<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/forum.northernbrewer.com\/viewtopic.php?f=9&#038;t=94651&#038;start=0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.homebrewtalk.com\/f32\/slow-stuck-fermentation-cider-barrel-172577\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.homebrewtalk.com\/f32\/1st-attempt-hard-apple-cider-80602\/<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cider.org.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>a good argument against using plastic bottles:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cider.org.uk\/frameset.htm<\/p>\n<p>you will never lose a batch racking too early, but you can loose a batch leaving it on the lees too long.<\/p>\n<p>I always leave my cider in primary for a month, don&#8217;t ask me why but it has always yielded excellent results!<\/p>\n<p>1:  Stir it up.<\/p>\n<p>2: add yeast nutrient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cidermaking","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-DD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}