Thought I forgot about this didn’t you? I wanted to give these a very long time to settle before trying them again.
I did not take gravity readings this time, though in hindsight I probably should have. I did take some tasting notes from each glass though.
Bread Yeast – Some of the funny off-flavours have dissipated from this cider. It smells like cheap wine and has a semi-sour, sweet taste. It seems to have retained its apple juice like qualities, including being completely flat.
Beer Yeast – Bleh. This one has taken a turn for the worst. That funny off-taste of yeast is stronger then ever in this cider. The yeast obviously did not do a very good job of cleaning up the flavours before they died. It is definitely the sweetest of the bunch, but has over the past 6 months become flat like the bread yeast.
WC-1118 – It smells like wine, it looks like wine and for all intensive purposes it tastes like wine. The driest of the bunch and the most carbonated, the WC-1118 yeast did an exceptional job of cleaning up any form of funky flavours. It was the cleanest, most enjoyable of the batch. It was so enjoyable I finished off the entire bottle of it with happy results.
I still have one more round which I will do way into the summer. Thumbs plus for SCIENCE!
Round 4 is finished with WC-1118 in the lead!