/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>So I'm at the store last week, and see cider is on sale for $3.00/gallon.
>Wasn't familiar with the brand, so I bought some to try,
>Wattya know, it's some fucking good shit, so of course I buy ten.
> As soon as I get home it gets sugared up and tossed into the fermenting pail.
>Pitch the yeast, and go to bed congratulating myself on the great deal.
>Fast forward one an a half days, go to check on my projects.
>Water in the cider airlock is still dead level.
>"What the hell? I know the yeast was good and the cider was goo...."
> oh fuck I forgot to check for preservatives
>go out to the garage, check label on one of the jugs, of course Potassium Sorbate (for freshness and all that)
>Hang head in shame of rookie move, go and prepare yeast starter.

So all this week I've spent stepping up yeast starters, adding most of them to the cider, and waiting to see if it's enough yeast to bind up all the P. sorb so that they can start budding on their own. On the plus side, today the rate of CO2 bubbling off increased on it's own, so no more babysitting starter.