{"id":57,"date":"2013-10-22T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-10-22T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:12:31","slug":"dry-dry-cider-issues-newborn-nappies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/dry-dry-cider-issues-newborn-nappies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry dry cider that smells of newborn nappies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual I shot from the hip with the cider I&#8217;m making (I really need to learn).\u00a0 I only had access to rather acidic bramleys and initially just shoved in a campden tablet and waited.\u00a0 Nothing at all happened so when I went to my lovely brewing shop they suggested whacking in some cider yeast.\u00a0 They also kindly gave me their printed cider instructions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-87\" alt=\"2013-10-20 16.11.58\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-20-16.11.58-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The gravity of my apple juice was very low, so I stuck some soft brown sugar in (on a whim) to bring it up to 1050.\u00a0 The fermentation followed the typical not-very-much to insane-frothing (see video below).\u00a0 My recipe said leave it for four days, check it and make sure that it does not go below a gravity of 1005.\u00a0 I measured it after 3.5 days and the gravity was 1004.\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 It is already pretty dry with quite a kick, and still bubbling away merrily.\u00a0 After a little research I figured that it was too warm (should have done it in the cellar?) and maybe I should not have added the sugar.<\/p>\n<p>The dreadful smell of new born nappies was not encouraging, nor was the colour of the yeast froth that matched the colour of those delightful little packages from early fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?\u00a0 Well, I have racked it off carefully and am putting it in a cold place.\u00a0 Not sure what to do after that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cider overdrive\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtsAL9gN6Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual I shot from the hip with the cider I&#8217;m making (I really need to learn).\u00a0 I only had access to rather acidic bramleys and initially just shoved in a campden tablet and waited.\u00a0 Nothing at all happened so when I went to my lovely brewing shop they suggested whacking in some cider yeast.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/dry-dry-cider-issues-newborn-nappies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dry dry cider that smells of newborn nappies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cider","tag-bramley-2013-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}