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The airlock is bubbling nicely to show that fermentation is active but there is no layer foam on top that you get when making beer.
Does cider produce a krausen?
WalesAles wrote:Mick,
Did you enjoy the Homebrew Fest?
I`ve never made a Cider Kit so I can`t comment.
However, I have made a few TC`s and I find that if I use a clear Juice, ie, Raspberry, Raspbery and Cranberry, I don`t get a Krausen.
If I use an opaque juice, ie, Mango and Papaya, Kiwi and Lime, I will get a Krausen. If it doesn`t sink before bottling I will scoop off the
muck and carry on as normal. Just checked my Kiwi and Lime TC, all the little debris bits have sunk since scooping off the muck 2 days ago,
so will be OK for bottling Sunday. The TC will be opaque at bottling and I`ve never kept it long enought to see if it will drop bright, (probably not).
The Rhubarb TC made on Sunday (1.2kg from tins) had a 20mm krausen on monday, still 20mm today, broke up the krausen but I know this will
still float back to the surface. I will keep breaking this up just to get the Rhubarb flavour back into the TC. If it hasn`t sunk by day 11, I will scoop
it off and bottle as normal on day 14.
WA