I just tasted my first batch - it finished at 1.006. No hot flavors at all. What temperature did you ferment at? I'm wondering if you let it get too far over 70F.
I just tasted my first batch of this cider. I followed the recipe pretty closely but used 8oz of Cara-pils instead of the wheat for head retention and increased body. I did this because of the various posts about how you shouldn't use wheat in an extract "brew", and so on. I used Trader Joe's...