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• Posted in thread: I think I broke it - help needed on 06-18-2013 at 08:14 PM
  Just want to add that you should NOT pasteurize if on opening your bottle the foam fully
  escapes the neck. If you do there's a good chance they'll just detonate in your kettle like
  little fruity grena...

• Posted in thread: First applejack....mmmmm on 06-17-2013 at 04:57 PM
  Just finished, er, jacking. Yep, jackin' it in my kitchen.Impressions:-Jesus, this stuff is
  strong. The ice cider it was based on was already pretty potent but this is just hellacious. It
  tastes like ...

• Posted in thread: How best to sweeten cider? on 06-17-2013 at 02:37 PM
  A good rule of thumb is that it takes about 1/4 cup of sugar to carbonate a gallon of cider. So
  if you add more than that, and then arrest fermentation when carbonation is complete through
  refrigerati...

• Posted in thread: First applejack....mmmmm on 06-17-2013 at 02:31 PM
  I'm gonna try this this week with some cider I made from nothing but concentrate. It's frozen
  right now, so just a matter of sitting it out tonight, I guess! Think I'll just put a colander
  in a big st...

• Posted in thread: "Made With Hand-Picked Apples" on 06-13-2013 at 04:34 PM
  I actually like Michelob AND Stella's ciders. I guess I'm vulgar lol.Keep in mind that the US
  is actually one of the few remaining places where Stella Artois beer IS imported from Belgium
  and not just...

• Posted in thread: Punishingly dry cider on 06-12-2013 at 10:34 PM
  That's reassuring. I've had to deal with the fusel "rocket fuel" taste before but this is
  totally different. I'll pasteurize in the next couple of days and see how it pans out.

• Posted in thread: Punishingly dry cider on 06-12-2013 at 09:56 PM
  Made my first 5 gallon batch recently. Initial ingredients were 4.5gal of apple juice and 6
  tubes of concentrate. All was well and good and at 1 month it tasted like a pretty typical
  young cider.Bottl...

• Posted in thread: Cheap gift cider on 05-27-2013 at 01:04 AM
  Taste all the time!Young cider has a slightly burney acid-ey heat to it. This dissapates with
  bottle conditioning and is IMO the best reason to bottle condition. I assume time in the keg
  will work the...

• Posted in thread: Is simple cider really as simple as pitching yeast on 05-26-2013 at 04:52 PM
  Maple for bottling is awesome. I bottle at 1 tube concentrate and 1/4 cup maple per gallon; the
  taste after a couple weeks in the fridge is remarkable. Note that maple doesn't really have
  gobs of suga...

• Posted in thread: cider issues.... on 04-03-2013 at 12:35 PM
  I heard honey in there. That means it needs to age. Like maybe a lot.Backing up. All ciders
  produce a very hot head after primary, and usually spend a month or so in secondary (more is
  better). After ...