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**opus345** · 10-13-2012, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by sallykalou

In the primary since 10 sept, should I bottle age this or leave it in the primary to age? No airlock action now, I have both bottles, and the primary which I'm in no rush to get back.
I tried some, and it was rather tasteless, although with an alcoholic aftertaste to it.

Primary, secondary, or bottle now?

I'm just thinking about bottling the latest batch that was in primary since August 7.

I would wait another 4 weeks to bottle.

sallykalou · 10-14-2012, 12:20 PM

Will it benefit from me waiting longer than 4 weeks?

**BrewerBear** · 10-14-2012, 01:50 PM

jarett · 10-14-2012, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by FuzzeWuzze

Way too many cloves. Most people put 2-3 in max and many think its too much, at 8 i hate to break it too you but its going to be undrinkable for a very very long time...fish some of them out if you can somehow lol.

I don't know... I made a one gallon batch with two cloves and it's actually very tasty. I did also put in a little more than the proportional amount of sugar so there may be some extra sweetness offsetting the cloves. Since I put two one gallon I think the eight in five gallons might be ok.

I also kept the fermentation to a tight six weeks. I worry (maybe unnecessarily) that leaving any extra organic matter in there too long will create off-flavors.

1Q84 · 10-15-2012, 02:09 AM

Glad I checked this thread. My batch has been in the fermenter for a month as of today. Still have held off taking a sample, and I guess I'll let it sit for at least another month. Just wanna have it ready for the holidays.

Sean0718 · 10-15-2012, 05:23 PM

Can I bottle/cork this? Also, I read that you can carbonate this, where do I find that information?

Thanks!

dunbar171 · 10-16-2012, 03:05 AM

After letting my first batch of this sit for about 8 months I refer to it as drunk juice!! Yum..

**AMonkey** · 10-16-2012, 04:52 PM

Having trouble finding an answer. Read the first 50 pages or so and tried a search. I want to bottle and carb with a can of apple concentrate. Will this work? I followed the recipe but used 2lbs brown sugar instead. I don't want bottle bombs but am not sure how concentrate would work. Thanks!

fosgate · 10-16-2012, 05:53 PM

My god this site is evil. Going through a brewing course and just got into brewing and came over here to share a link when I found this thread. I have not had this stuff since I was stationed in Germany 92-94 and hit the Apfelwein Fest in Trier GE. Street vendor near the Roman Aqueduct gave us a free full glass which we quickly drank and reached into our pockets to take a few bottles back with us to Strassberg Kassrne. I remember waking up the next morning feeling fine but thirsty. Drank a couple glasses of water and started getting a buzz again. Someone told me the reason was because of all the sediment in the wine was still in our stomach and still had alcohol in it. Dunno, but I remember being pretty messed up for a couple days from that stuff. Man I miss that. Guess I'm going to have to make a batch of this too.

**opus345** · 10-16-2012, 09:51 PM

Search the thread for bottling posts using terms like carbonate or prime, etc. Here are a couple thread links that talk about it:

572: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/man-i-love-apfelwein-14860/index58.html#post187034
902: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/man-i-love-apfelwein-14860/index91.html#post221703
905: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/man-i-love-apfelwein-14860/index91.html#post221740