Okay, yesterday I chilled two full (and two half, 'cause I could) bottles of the batch-0 and batch-1 ginger ciders.
Today, I popped a batch-0 cider to find it... completely still. No fizz! Argh! Of course, this was a difficult cider to begin with, so I guess I'm not surprised. I'll now about batch-1 when I open it... tomorrow? Tonight? We'll see.
It's still quite tasty, and the ginger (in this MILD version) gives it a bit of the bite that carbonation would have added.
I still haven't decided to re-inoculate the cherry cider or this batch now, to make fizz. It would be a pain to do so, but I -like- fizz. But I like these still, too, in spite of not liking other still ciders.
We'll see.
Nik, my son, has been playing with labels for me. Here is a preview of the cherry label that is awesome, though in color (needs conversion to B&W for easier use in my limited world):
http://www.simreal.com/sahara_cherry.jpg
He is working on some ginger ideas too, and has something for the Odd Brewery Collective (I told him he was a fallback in case our primary artist comes up blank). I'm liking it so far! I hope he scans the new works soon.
Posted by Edwin at March 18, 2008 09:28 PM