my first turbo cider

[pongobilly]

i am just about to embark on a turbo cider

t***os apple juice

blossom honey

youngs cider yeast

here goes!!!!!!!!

[tubby_shaw]

Good luck pb, you'll have fun watching it try to climb out of the demijohn
The apple juice you have picked is one of the better ones for TC IMO

[maxashton]

pics pics pics!

[pongobilly]

well im of to work in an hour so the dog, (the one in the avitar) will have to keep his eye on it, i have it standing in a large roasting tin with my wine, with the heat belt round the upper part of the demijohn, if anything goes wrong the wife will find it first

[pongobilly]

after reading about peoples turbo cider i just got in expecting a foam head pushing up my airlock, instead i just have a flat liquid with bubbles rising and a very active airlock

is this normal for the yeast im using (see first post)

[maxashton]

perhaps the proper cider yeast is less thermonuclear in juice than is ale yeast.

mine's pretty foamy but not blowing the airlock out.

That said, i'm not using a heat belt.

[The Cardinal]

Erm, wrote something but in the wrong post.

[pongobilly]

well ive had to move the heat belt up a bit cos it was reading a bit too warm

[maxashton]

I stuck mine in my stockpot with a bit of warm water.
Kickstarted the ferment rather nicely.

[pongobilly]

my first turbo cider is now down to a gravity of around 1000 and is still bubbling away like mad.

pure alcohol anyone

[maxashton]

I made the mistake of transferring mine to a plakky bottle and forgot about it.
I remembered it last night and took it out of the FV i stashed it in for safety reasons.... it's still going...
so i thought hell, i'd better release the pressure in there!
i did so.

I'm still doing it this morning!

IT NEVER ENDS!

[pongobilly]

well mine is slowing up gradualy so im sure it will stop soon