1 Avoid using pressure-treated lumber where it may come into contact with drinking water or food (such as cutting boards or for use in beehives). 2  Do not use treated wood for animal food storage bins, water trough, and compost bins.  Remember to âmeasure twice and cut onceâ to avoid wasting time and material.
Add 1 to 1.5 crushed Campden tablets per gallon of cider, wait 24 to 36 hours and then add your desired wine yeast. You have killed the wildlife in the natural cider, and then added your own single-strain alcohol-fermenting yeast.
Many winemaking books tell you to stabilize, sweeten to taste, and then bottle your wine. I insert a step in the process--two if required--prior to bottling. I suggest that you stabilize, sweeten to taste, wait 10 days, rack if necessary, and then bottle. The important thing is to wait the 10 days and rack if necessary.he addition of crushed Campden tablets to the wine at this point may be enough to stop the fermentation. The culprit that does in the yeast is sulfite. Each Campden tablet contains one-half gram of sulfite in the form of sodium or potassium metabisulfite.