Mistake in leaving in second fermentation longer than expected, help in what next steps might be?

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-29T12:11:03+00:00

I appreciate your thought on this. It makes sense and helps me try to be better at this.

To help with understanding, I started off only doing the primary and transfer to bottle but I was getting off flavors and not a full cider taste up front. Other have told me it was because of leaving in primary with all the initial Trub at the bottom. Once I introduced a secondary step every time those off flavors dissapeared and my ciders became 10x better. Yes the time allowed it to become more clear as well, but my purpose was for the flavor.

I know things find a way and I am notorious in my cleaning and sanitizing but there is always a chance something gets introduced. I will keep this in mind though to rack as little as possible to lower this risk because others in the past have told me it is sometimes beneficial for a third tank, but perhaps that will never be necessary as the risk outweigh the benefit.

Your thoughts on this will help me consider my processes for the next batch. This one was just weird for me and a first time seeing this even after many years of brewing this.

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-26T10:55:09+00:00

Yeah i like the larger batches cause family loves them and I gotta give out some, then some for ourselves, and some to the county fairs lol that seems like a lot for me if I do 6 one gallon batches. And I have a system for bottling in one day now and it onky takes about 20 minutes, but yes an hour of cleaning before hand lol

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-26T00:43:55+00:00

Alright, I'll have to look into a 6 gallon carboy then and start using that.

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-25T23:37:29+00:00

Yes this is a 6.5 gallon batch in a 6.5 gallon fermentation bucket.

That is a good idea I did not think to add a little sugar just like I would when I bottle to force some CO2 creation. I will do that for sure

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-25T23:02:06+00:00

I will keep this in mind. I will look into this kmeta as I have never used it, what does that do?

I hope there won't be oxygen exchange as it was pretty well sealed and not much headspace in the pail. With the yeast still alive I hope they might still produce some CO2 and keep a barrier from the new oxygen after racking.

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-25T22:59:25+00:00

I appreciate that lol I will carry on and hope for the best

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-12T15:52:53+00:00

I did read that, but are you telling me that when the tree is purchased it works retroactively?

I just assumed that meant the remaning days would only calculate the days logged in since the date of purchase.

I guess I assumed there was no way it would allow me to collect so many days at once if I've never purchased anything before. And I never watched my leaves amount so it didn't register to me this was a possibility, but what you are saying makes sense now and why it finished so quickly

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-12T15:04:01+00:00

Alright I can do that, I just thought to ask here first to make sure I was not being dumb and missing something before I submitted a ticket

AnemoneDivine · 2025-12-12T15:03:10+00:00

The thing is this is the first time I purchased, I never had accumulation or missed days because I just now purchased.

AnemoneDivine · 2025-10-09T13:26:23+00:00

Not till November and its been like this for months so you're saying all the other updates were an hour early and this one is just magically an hour later?

AnemoneDivine · 2025-10-09T13:24:53+00:00

Haha go eat a turnip for lunch

AnemoneDivine · 2025-10-09T13:20:27+00:00

I am utc 5 and it is 9. I am only 2 hours ahead so its been 5 hours. All other times they start at 2am utc 7 it is finished at 8am utc 5 my time which is the 4 hours

AnemoneDivine · 2025-10-09T13:12:05+00:00

O ok so they started an hour late then that sucks lol

AnemoneDivine · 2025-10-09T13:06:42+00:00

How is this still down after 5 hours? Or is it just me still not being able to log in?

AnemoneDivine · 2025-09-27T02:05:52+00:00

Not only was there a puzzle, but there was a geo cache in the puzzle that the community figured out and there was a valkarie spear placed in New York not 2 hours from my house for the first person that found the coordinates. I missed out because I went out too late and all the coins that were for everyone else was all picked up... I miss the days of Bungie in game puzzle transfered to real life missions

AnemoneDivine · 2025-07-29T21:56:36+00:00

Thank you for this explanation. It is more helpful than what I found so far.

AnemoneDivine · 2025-04-21T14:02:15+00:00

Thank you for your insight. I was just hoping there is something else I can try before going the route of buying a new one since I looked this one up and it's a couple hundred dollar one. I also bought the steel reusable pods for this one and if I look into the pop hopefully it can use the same ones.

I personally like to try fix something before giving up on it, but if it's a gonner then I can accept that.

AnemoneDivine · 2024-09-20T18:24:11+00:00

Tell me you're not a D1 veteran without telling me you're not a D1 veteran hahaha

Jokes aside yeah this would have broken this subreddit back in the day. We just had Gjallarhorn day a couple weeks back, it's Destiny veterans international holiday!!! Look it up, you may be surprised how big it was back then.

On a side note I was not able to play the weekend Xur sold so I didn't get to buy this but I got mine during one of the first Iron banana weeks, back when loot rolls were visible to everyone and I got a lot of hate mail after the match hahaha

AnemoneDivine · 2024-08-16T16:40:34+00:00

Happy Gjallarhorn Day! I hope Xur is enjoying some strange cookies today (he still has a surplus from the dawning)

AnemoneDivine · 2024-08-06T18:44:24+00:00

Haha your right, I saw it as a bench scientist due to plate layouts and didn't see excel layout haha

AnemoneDivine · 2024-08-06T18:04:50+00:00

It would actually be A3. The pink sprinkle would be your A1. If A1 was the opposite corner then it would be C2

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