Pressed AJ when to barrel

[monkeyb0y]

Hi,

ive had some pressed AJ fermenting with cider yeast for a week..
please can someone tell me what fg i can rack off at..
its reading 1010 but theres still a light covering of bubbles...

Thanks
Rich

[fatbloke]

Hi,

ive had some pressed AJ fermenting with cider yeast for a week..
please can someone tell me what fg i can rack off at..
its reading 1010 but theres still a light covering of bubbles...

Thanks
Rich

Depends what you want to do with it doesn't it. And what kind of fermenter.....

if it's in a pressure barrel, you can let it go till it stops, give it some time for the yeast to drop, then rack it off onto some non-fermentable sweetner....

If it's in something else, then you've got to decide what style you want it to be....... just because you've used a cider yeast, won't magically make cider will it.....

It will ferment dry, so you've to decide whether you want it dry or sweet, still or carbonated.....

regards

fatbloke

[tractor]

hey monkey boy

if it was me i would ferment it right out and bottle it and possibley sweenten to taste just before bottling if you want. To ferment right out it'll take a lot longer than a week possibly up until christmas depending on your varity of apples, just leave it fermenting it won't cause it any harm.

one thing you might want to consider is moving it to a new fermenting vessle just to take it off the sediment thats collected at the bottom. theres a big risk of infection doing this, i'd say it's worth the risk but others will say it aint depends if you can be arsed or not really.

As fatty mentions tho if you do have a pressure barrel or keg of some sort now would be the time to seal your juice in and take advantage of the natural carbonation that will take place over the next couple of months.

Dont worry to much about gravities when your making real cider.