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I have a simple question about bottling - I just bottled a hard apple cider on the 25th and didn't have enough wine bottles, so I used an old glass peanut butter jar with a metal screw-on lid. As I carried it to my basement, it started to leak a little so I put a plastic bag over it with a...

First of all, Merry Christmas for those of you still in the 25th. Well, I just bottled my first batch of hard cider today after fermenting for a little over 4 weeks. I used Indian Summer Apple Cider (a lot like regular apple juice, just less ingredients), cane sugar, and Lalvin KV-1116 cider...

Does anyone know if the normal sized (as opposed to the Mini) Fermtech autosiphon will fit in a gallon sized container, i.e. a milk jug? I have a batch of hard apple cider fermenting now in 2 1-gallon milk jugs and I plan on making bigger batches in the future with bigger containers (such as...

Hey guys, I just made 2 gallons (yeah, yeah, I know...) of a variation of Ed Wort's Apfelwein (I used granular cane sugar instead of corn sugar (dextrose) so I think it's considered a hard cider). I used half of a packet of Lalvin K1-V1116 yeast for each gallon and placed a balloon on top of...