{"id":2877,"date":"2011-09-26T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:16:29","slug":"have-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"have faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I&#8217;d hesitated decanting this month&#8217;s batch of cider in hopes that I could find a better way of storing the secondary fermentation.\u00a0 I started with initial idea of using another 3 gallon water bottle and just sealing it till it was ready. But as time went on I felt more and more uncertain that the waterbottle would withhold the internal pressure.\u00a0 I tested it a few times and it seemed to swell up in just an hour or so at first, though by late saturday I had tested it for a full 6 hours and there was no sticky mess to clean up in my house.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to Doyle about it and he had some method for measuring PSI that sounded like it would work, but in the end I just had to have faith and decant the cider off to another water bottle, add some honey for flava, and close the lid.\u00a0 I bottled two bottles as insurance, and took the whole lot out to my garage.<\/p>\n<p>I put the bottle in an empty plastic tub so if it does split open the resulting wave of cider will be contained.\u00a0 Not that it won&#8217;t hurt my feelings when that happens!<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of research on the home brewing websites and barring a discovery of one of those huge ceramic jugs some place most people bottled and dealt with the occasional explosion. OR they had much more high end set ups than I have, some including a &#8216;kegarator&#8217; that can cost 1000&#8217;s.\u00a0\u00a0 Sort of what I was after when I tried to find a fridge that would hold the bottles or one big bottle as in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much at my limit for cider making unless someone starts donating apples.<\/p>\n<p>OH darn, i was going to do that this fall. Look for some crab apples to crush up for flavor.\u00a0 Might be an october batch but at this point I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d hesitated decanting this month&#8217;s batch of cider in hopes that I could find a better way of storing the secondary fermentation.\u00a0 I started with initial idea of using another 3 gallon water bottle and just sealing it till it was ready. But as time went on I felt more and more uncertain that the [&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-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cidermaking","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-Kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13478,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/13478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}