smittygouv30

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Do you mind elaborating on what you mean by "after fermentation". I do plan to keg and carb my aplewein. Like bottle conditioning, won't adding sugar just be eaten by the leftover yeast to produce CO2. Are you adding a non-fermentable to sweeten or are you "killing" fermentation and then adding regular sugar?

Thanks.
Corey

This is my first of hopefully many attempts at aplewein/hard cider.

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Keg 1: The Electric S'more Stout
Keg 2: Apfelwein
Keg 3: Pumpking clone
Keg 4: Two-hearted Ale clone

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bbbblaine

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After fermentation would just mean after the yeast has finished eating all the sugars it can (any fermentables). If you plan to keg and then carbonate naturally, you shouldn't add anything to kill the yeast. Just add some priming sugar to the bottom of the keg and rack.

However, if you want to back-sweeten, you will need to stop fermentation by adding something to it, then add your sugars (back-sweetening) and rack to the keg, then force carbonate. The alternative way to back-sweeten would be to add unfermentable sugars, so it just depends on how you want to do it.

smittygouv30

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Thanks for the reply. Of course I have more questions.

What are my options to end all fermentation so I can just add sugar to sweeten?

If I decide to add unfermentables instead f the previous option, what can/should I use? Splenda?

Thanks,
Corey

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Hop Rehab Electric Brewery

Keg 1: The Electric S'more Stout
Keg 2: Apfelwein
Keg 3: Pumpking clone
Keg 4: Two-hearted Ale clone

Primary: Lemongrass Wheat Kolsch
Secondary: Empty

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Recipe?

UpstateMike

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Still working on it, I have version 2.0 still in the primary. Gimmee a week and I'll probably have something.

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Cool, thanks.
Regards, GF.

bbbblaine

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I believe what I used in my pink lemonade to stop fermentation was some pottassium sorbate I got from my LHBS. But I heard that another thing should be added to the mix before that stuff or you will get bad flavors.

As far as unfermentables go, either splenda or stevia or some other artificial sugar that you like the taste of. You can also use lactose (milk sugar) as well. I would just experiment with different amounts on a small scale first so that you don't end up over-sweetening and making it undrinkable.

pedimac

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Mine too. Made the Apfelwein, then added upstatemike's caramel sauce and 2 cans of concentrate. Tasty stuff.

Vox

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Good Morning. I would like to hear how people are backsweetening edwort's apfelwein specifically as I have a batch at five weeks. It was just over 1% sg the other day so I'm thinking it may be ready to bottle soon. It was like apple rocket fuel! This is my first batch so I would appreciate some specific suggestions on how to backsweeten it for a newbie.

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By concentrate do you mean frozen concentrate from the supermarket or the concentrate in a can from home brew stores?