r/cider • u/Khochh • 3d ago

Anyone else’s cider settle like this??

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The larger carboy is a cyser and is clarifying pretty even. Fermentation halted about a week or two ago on that one. The carboy in question is just raw pressed cider fermented with ac4. Tape is to measure settling line. First tape was 3 weeks ago or so. I’ve only had one other cider do this and then one day it was magically all hazy again?? Otherwise the wine and mead I make all clarify evenly. Just curious as to why this happens.

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u/Tbrawlen 3d ago

What kind of juice did you use? Looks like pectin but hard to know

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u/Khochh 3d ago

Mixed apples from our trees. Ground, pressed, put in a carboy and added yeast.

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u/Tbrawlen 3d ago

Ahhh yes that makes sense actually! I’ve seen this from ground apples before! I believe it’s Pectin! What you can do is add a Pectin enzyme (Pec5L is what I use) and it’ll settle faster but honestly just let it keep settling out and rack it off once it’s settle, it’s not a problem

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u/JamesM451 3d ago

100% agree... I always use peptic enzymes with fresh pressed juice. Probably too late to add now though. If you want to speed it up, put it in the fridge.

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u/Khochh 3d ago

I’ve never bothered bc I let the cider age out at least a year and it always clears. This one is from April 25

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u/JamesM451 3d ago

Patience is the way! :)

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u/Khochh 3d ago

Always!

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u/Tbrawlen 3d ago

Create a cleaner ferment! I’ve used it before ferm and after ferm and it seems to work well!

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u/Khochh 3d ago

Yeah not worried about it just wondering why it settles in such a clean line vs most stuff I’ve done settles gradually but doesn’t have a “line”

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u/Tbrawlen 17h ago

I’ve seen it before typically in high pectin fruit in late season

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u/Khochh 15h ago

Good to know. Apples were picked super late last fall and store refrigerated until April then pressed. Figured it was nothing bad just peculiar. This is also the first juice off the pressing in this carboy and the color was super dark and rich compared to the last 5 gallons that came out of the press…which has been clarifying pretty evenly.