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He is asking about different methods to stop fermentation early in order to keep some of the juice's sweetness intact - i.e. not get eaten up by the yeast. Thus, telling him to wait for completed fermentation is somewhat moot.

I believe the only real way to to bottle carb, sweet cider is to keeve cider. Keeving is the process to remove certain nutrients that yeast needs to replicate. If this is done properly, your cider will have finished fermenting sweet and then you can carb it... :)

I have read that. From what I've gathered, keeving is more of an art than science... It just leaves me confused as to where to start... :-/

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any success in keeving some juice... I've been reading about it and I am thinking of giving it a try... So I guess a few questions... 1. How did you go about doing it? From what I understand, you throw in some calcium chloride and some PME but I have...

899 + 5 = 904 Made another 5 gallons last night. This stuff is delightful! :-D

You will be fine. People made cider for eons before they even knew what caused its fermentation. In fact, I had a batch that accidentally started fermenting on its own...

I usually freeze it overnight and then let it thaw. I am fairly certain the ABV will kill anything leftover but freezing it breaks down the cells some so you can impart flavour faster! :)

The worst of the rhino farts (in my experience) has disappeared after 3-5 days. So you might over the worse of it now...

This isn't a cyser. A cyser is a cider and mead blend. No honey in there but I would call it apfelwein. I would agree w/ everyone else that you will need to age for a bit before it tastes good. My current apfelwein is ~6 months old and it is only starting to get good.

Hahahaha, I suppose. I live in on campus apartments though... So being 21, I can have booze but not in containers of greater than or equal to 5 gallons. BUT, my contract says nothing about making booze... There is no reason to attract undue attention here though... :)

I wish I ran a bee hive! I think my dorm might have some reservations about me having a beehive on my balcony... I'm already in some kind of grey zone for brewing; I don't think I should press too hard on it... :P I am very jealous though! I hope the honey is delicious and makes some good mead!

The answer is quite simply to not heat. Just add some campden tablets if you want... :)

Excellent! Thank you so much for the information! I will see what I can do!

Awesome. Thanks for the info. I will pass the information along to my brother. I might have to put my parent's basement to a good use. Do you know of a way that a homebrewer can keeve some juice?

So I brought home some Graff this weekend for my family. It was a big hit. But my brother was wondering if I could make some of that French cider typically called cidre bouché. It is the kind you see in Champagne bottles. I know there is something different about it but I am not quite...