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As we try cider again (with some amazing local juice picked up from an orchard here in Northern California), I just wanted to say, you are my hero. I don't understand a third of what you're talking about, but I'm sure that will come in time. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.

We brewed it twice - I liked it much better the first time than the second, though the differences were pretty minimal (the longer the second batch aged, the more bitter it got). It is totally a favorite of ours, and has even impressed many non beer drinkers, or even worse, Coors Light...

Just got ours bottled tonight. So good. It went ballistic during primary fermentation - if we didn't have a blow off tube we'd have been screwed. Thanks for posting a great recipe, that even n00bs can rock.

I can certainly take some, though it's not very impressive. We just got a second 5 gallon carboy so we're ready to get some bigger batches going. Alas, not much happened after we added the clean up yeast. We're just going to bottle and hope for the best. Wish us luck!

Thank you thank you for the advice. We definitely appreciate being able to ask questions of such a well versed bunch of folks.

It's in our bedroom (what can I say, we LOVE our cider :o ), so it's definitely not below 64, though I'm sure the temperature does fluctuate a bit. We know now about the need for initial measurements, and we're ready for round three, but unfortunately, we didn't get them for rounds one and two...

So, even though it said it was 0 proof, it may still have alcohol in it? Well, in any case, now both batches have a bunch of sugar sitting in them, with no activity at all. Is there any saving them at this point?

Well that was vague of me. Make that 2 gallons juice, 2-3 g yeast, and 3/4 c concentrate in the second batch (none in the first) With the second batch at first rack the potential alcohol was 0 as was the proof.

1. Juice, red star cotes des blancs yeast and some additional apple juice concentrate in the 2nd batch 3. We didn't have a hydrometer yetwhen we started, so no initial measurements,both readings came from the hydrometer (2 different floats came with it - sp. grav. ,proof, potential alcohol and...

I didn't want to start a new thread because this topic seemed fitting, but I am branching off to my own question, rather than addressing the OP. I think we may have destroyed not one, but two batches of cider last night. . . . . The first batch was ready for bottling, and was supposed to get...