{"id":7732,"date":"2005-10-03T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/03\/cider-3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:42","slug":"cider-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/03\/cider-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cider&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the telltale ring of foam has appeared on the surface of the fermenting cider, indicating the yeast is just about to break the growing vs. eating threshold. I&#8217;d expect that when I get home there should be a goodly layer of foam (still not sure if it is called krausen on cider) on the surface. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the ring is &#8212; I believe &#8212; caused by the initial dosing of yeast settling in the lowest point of the carboy, a ring about 2&#8243; in from the outside wall, all along the bottom. Then as it takes just gets going, the most wee bubbles come from this area, producing a ring of foam on the surface of the cider. After that, it&#8217;ll become a wholly roiling mass of yeast and CO<sub>2<\/sub> and juice and other things, as described previously.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately with the start of the fermentation comes the inevitable sulfur smell. That makes it smell a bit ass-y in the basement. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the telltale ring of foam has appeared on the surface of the fermenting cider, indicating the yeast is just about to break the growing vs. eating threshold. I&#8217;d expect that when I get home there should be a goodly layer of foam (still not sure if it is called krausen on cider) on the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13897,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7732\/revisions\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}