Wifes spare apples.

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NTesla

Wifes spare apples.

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My experimental 1 gallon apple mash, took a look at alot of recipes and came up with this to get rid of my wifes extra apples.
3lbs apples
1 2/3 cup white sugar.
1 tsp fermex
half packet bakers yeast half packet k1v-1116 yeast.

Boiled apples to sanitize, decored, cut up and pressed through a collinder to make real small, left peels in.
boiled 1 gallon tap water added mashed apples and put sugar in until sg was 1.060 turned out to be 1 2/3 cups.
added the 1 tsp fermex at this time also.
for the yeast i simply followed the directions on the packet boiled a cup of water once it cooled to about 104 i put yeast in and after 15 minutes stirred to suspend.
i ended up adding just over a tsp of citric acid to bring the ph down to about 5.
once both mash and yeast had cooled down to about 80 degrees f i pitched the yeast and sealed off.

2 1/2 hours into fermentation: visable bubbles, stirred floating fruit in.
5 hours: alot of activity air lock popping 1 in 8 seconds, jug almost pushing fruit into airlock had to stir back in again. temp holding at 75 degrees in 60 degree room
2 days: noticed some fruit floating my air lock, apparently overflowed just a tad. had to replace water in it no worries.
3 days: 1.030 sg, temp about 72 degrees f. airlock popping 1 in 3 seconds.

ive seen some recipes where the fruit was taken out a couple days in and pressed then juices put back in. not sure if im going to do that any suggestions?

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