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I made a Black rock cider kit, this is only my fifth brew i think. The shop manager was unsure of what to add to cider kits for more flavour as he's not a cider drinker and therefore had never made it. I thought straight off it might be to sweet so he sold me a pack of dry enzyme. Used 1kg of dextrose. It brewed out, the reading was the same 3 days in a row so i bottled, Now two have exploded.
I also notice when bottled it had sort of flakes floating all through it. Its been bottle 2 weeks now and it settled and cleared, so i tried one, the taste is fine, bit dry. Tastes like it will get more flavour in time. Bit green

Do you reckon it was the dry enzyme?

No, the kit is dry anyway (its mainly simple sugars that ferment fully), and the dex will have fermented fully too. You would have had the same result with out the dry enzyme. Unfortunately its not likely to get any less dry, but will round out a bit.

gazpachos0up, is your name a red dwarf reference? if so.. legend!

it is a red dwarf reference actually

KEG wrote:gazpachos0up, is your name a red dwarf reference? if so.. legend!

gazpachos0up wrote:it is a red dwarf reference actually

That probably should have read:

It is a red dwarf reference actually.

apologies for so blatantly taking a thread off topic

Working hard i see KEG!

Which Red Dwarf episode does this refer to?

I thought it may have been a Seinfeld reference....

Rimmer, the smart ass that he is, complains about his gazpacho soup being cold. Can't recall seeing it in the TV series, was definitely in the books...

Yep, series 1 episode 6: Me2

Lister finds "gazpacho soup day" marked in Rimmer's diary.

Super!

I''m having the same problem.

i've been brewing black rock for ages without any problems until recently. I'm getting the occasional explosion as well.

I look like a bomb disposal expert transfering from the brew house to the fridge.

Changed nothing in the procedure from when I was getting a great cider. It's always very gassy and cloudy as well.

HELP ??

wobbler wrote:I''m having the same problem.

i've been brewing black rock for ages without any problems until recently. I'm getting the occasional explosion as well.

I look like a bomb disposal expert transfering from the brew house to the fridge.

Changed nothing in the procedure from when I was getting a great cider. It's always very gassy and cloudy as well.

HELP ??

Are you using dry enzyme by any chance?, I used this stuff and its what seemed to make mine explode, my mate used it too and had the same results... I think you really just gotta make sure its totally fermented out, I've heard that cider and ginger beer can seem to finish fermenting but when you rock or rotate the fermenter on its edge for a bit to stir it up it can start fermenting again...

i have the opposite problem. My Blackrock cider is flat as a tack