BadgerBrigade

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I just did my first batch... I just bottled, added priming sugar in the form of carbonation drops and cracked one last night to check the carbonation level... Not sweet? I used off-the-shelf treetop apple juice, one small can of pineapple juice, and some cinnamon and nutmeg as the recipe called for... It tasted kind of sweet when I racked it the second time but now it's kind of losing that... What I did was I let it ferment for six weeks in the carboy, then into another carboy for a week and a half... The reason I didn't let it sit longer was because I had quite a bit of headspace and it appeared to have completely finished fermentation so I don't think there was any good blanket of CO2 on top... I put carbonation drops in my bottles instead of doing priming sugar and I cracked one a couple of days after just to check the carbonation... Is this why people back Sweeten? And could you back sweetened with pear juice? I really want to make a pear cider or "peary" but the fresh no preservative juice is really really expensive at my store here... Should I try to find information on back sweetening in this forum or is there a way to naturally sweetened with the flavors of what you're working with already?

runitis

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Pull up the thread, many people sweeten it with different sweeteners. In the future, IMOP, I would let it sit for awhile. I've done 2 batches, and to be honest it doesn't start to get good until about 5-6 months. I just racked a bacth to a keg last week, it sat in the carboy for 3 months and I won't touch it for at least another 4-5 months. I don't back sweeten mine at all.

Captainfester

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back sweeten with splenda or other fake sugar. other wise it will just ferment out.

you could back sweeten with a juice or concentrate although you wil have to kill the yeast with pasterization.

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lex990

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I'm gonna use a juice concentrate on mine to prime. Will putting in fridge stop the yeast also or is pasteurization a must.

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Putting it in the fridge will stop it, just make sure you leave it there.

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