My third effort at brewing since starting again after a long break and I may have buggered it!
According to Wilko instructions:
4-6 days ferment, bottle with priming and +2 days in warm then +14 days in cool.
Well it went really well for about 12 days then stopped with no activity for two days. However, it was still very cloudy with lots of floaty bits and no where near ready to bottle, so in my wisdon and without really thinking carefully about it, I through in some Harris Cider Finings and left it.
Not long after it began to bubble again and did so for a couple of days, which I was not expecting. A week on and there's no change in clarity at all.
I'm a bit stuck really and think I may haved killed off the yeast with the finnings which contained sodium metabisulphite.
I took a small sample and covered with cling film in a glass with brown sugar, popped it in the airing cupbaord and no sign of activity/carbon dioxide production after 48Hrs.
It tastes very dry, with a PH of 3.8 or slightly less.
What should I do, bin it?
According to Wilko instructions:
4-6 days ferment, bottle with priming and +2 days in warm then +14 days in cool.
Well it went really well for about 12 days then stopped with no activity for two days. However, it was still very cloudy with lots of floaty bits and no where near ready to bottle, so in my wisdon and without really thinking carefully about it, I through in some Harris Cider Finings and left it.
Not long after it began to bubble again and did so for a couple of days, which I was not expecting. A week on and there's no change in clarity at all.
I'm a bit stuck really and think I may haved killed off the yeast with the finnings which contained sodium metabisulphite.
I took a small sample and covered with cling film in a glass with brown sugar, popped it in the airing cupbaord and no sign of activity/carbon dioxide production after 48Hrs.
It tastes very dry, with a PH of 3.8 or slightly less.
What should I do, bin it?
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