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Difficult to find somewhere this time of year that is cold enough!

Is leaving it on the garage ok? It's the coolest place I've got but on a sunny day it can still get up to 25 in there

Ok thanks! At least it tastes good so should only get better.

Ok so this is my first time brewing beer. I normally make cider - which comes outto great I must say! The initial fermentation went well and after about a week the SG was stuck at 1012 so I siphoned over to my keg and primed it. I left it in the house for example days to get the secondaries...

Do I need to agitate the demijohns during fermentation.or.just leave it alone?

Thanks guys - I now have 3 demijohns filled to just below the shoulder. Let's hope it makes something drinkable! @snake_2586 - how much are you making then? Sounds like you have a small production line!

Is it worth syphoning that last demijohn out and splitting across the other 3 before fermenting? Not sure if it would over-fill the demijohn during fermentation - how far can/should you fill them at this stage?

Decided to turn the harvest of our apple tree into cider. 250+ apples from one tree resulted in this:-) Interesting to see the different colours in the demijohns. The ones of the left were quite a bit darker before I added the campden tablet - didn't expect it to change the colour so much...