There is 5 gallons of apple cider, fermenting in my bathroom. The yeast won't do their job in the cool garage, as well as they will in the house. I don't want this sticky goodness to overflow in the carpeted closet, so the compromise was the bathroom. If it overflows here, it will run over the side of the tub and onto the carpeted bathroom floor (who carpets bathrooms?). I'm thinking it won't overflow, though it is quite active and alive, it even makes noise!
The stopper in the top is filled with alcohol, and lets the gasses cause by fermentation out, but sugar loving bacteria from getting in. It is pretty nifty and scientific if you ask me. The thing about fermentation is that it does release gas, which I guess is best in the bathroom after all.
Yesterday, our daughter was in the bathroom, and came running to me holding her nose. "Mom!! Did someone puke!?!?!" I'll admit, it does smell like the dorm bathroom my freshman year of college in our bathroom.
I am not sure it is a good sign, or a bad sign, as this is our first attempt at hard cider. Beer doesn't smell bad fermenting. I could open the window a crack, but that would cool the room down and slow fermentation. I could shut the bathroom door, but then I'll walk straight into it, in the dark night.
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