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   Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 18:52:51 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

   #HootchReview
   Juice: Apple and Blackcurrant
   Added: 3 teaspoons of sugar
   Time: 3 weeks

   Almost no apple taste. Dry Blackcurrant. Not my favourite flavour but refreshing when cold. The bubbles slowed down in week 3. Think I need to add much more sugar to keep the fermenting going longer. It was also cold this week, hovering around 20C.

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     Cook ?Syd (cook@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 19:34:23 JST Cook ?Syd

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     @ned You need way more sugar. I was using about 100g of white sugar when I was using bakers yeast. I'm using about 250g sugar with wine yeast.

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 07:08:40 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     @cook so I've been increasing it slowly. 3 teaspoons for this, 4 for the next, 5 after that, etc. Problem is there's a 3 week gap till I get feedback. I think you're right. Next one going to skip straight to 250g. I assume that means I need to increase fermentation time too?

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     Cook ?Syd (cook@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 09:03:17 JST Cook ?Syd

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     @ned 250g I find pretty good for wine yeast. But if your using bakers yeast or beer yeast it will be too much, try 100g ish. Or do a few, at say 75g 100g and 125g in the same batch.