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Hi, I started a couple batches (2.5 gal each) just before the holidays. My normal cider place was closed so I bought 5 gallons from a local grocery store. The only extra ingredient was something that was supposed to preserve flavor... it was not the typical potassium sulfate or sodium...

Hi. I’ve made a few batches of cider and got pretty good at stovetop pasteurization to get semi sweet carbonated cider. Now I have a keg system and plan to get the cider to the proper sweetness before kegging. Then carbonate in the keg, vs letting the yeast do the carbonating… Problem is, I need...

Here’s the deal. I have two different kinds of flip top bottles. I fermented my cider and back sweetened it and bottles it. Let it ferment in the bottles for one week and then pasturized it. results Bottle type 1: Good seal and sweet carbonated cider. Bottle type 2: Bad seal and sweet flat...

Hi, I have a hydrometer but not sure if it has a SG scale. The three scales it has and ranges are: Balling 0 - 30 Proof 0 - 26 Alcohol 0 - 13 Alcohol and Proof and redundant... don't know why they wasted the space. I suppose potential alcohol can be converted to SG... Hydrometers are cheap...

Hi, After making a very dry batch of cider I have decided to try backsweetening. I plan to make simple syrups with white sugar and brown sugar just to experiment with two flavors. Just wanted to check my plan with y'all. I use 1 liter bottles with flip tops. I plan to ferment for whatever time...

Hi, I've read a couple of threads recently where people ask if they can back sweeten with store bought apple juice. Didn't want to hijack any threads with my question, so here's a new post. My first batch is aging currently and I've taken a few samples over the past 3 weeks. Not sure I'm...

Hi, I'm mid-ferment right now and am planning to bottle my two gallons of cider into 8 one liter bottles when the time comes. I did not add any sugar to the cider and just plan to let it ferment as is for about 4 weeks. Assuming the bubbling stops or slows to almost nothing, I will rack...

Hi, My dad made wine and cider when I was a kid so I don't remember much other than the glass airlock bubbling away under the stairs in the basement :) I tried to homebrew a few batches of beer about 15 years ago, but didn't have good luck. Now with all of the hard cider products on the...