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?