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Thanks guys!

I did a small batch because it was my first time working with potassium sorbate and then back-sweetening. Also, I too have been trying to make something my girlfriend would drink and didn't want another 5 gallons of a cider she didn't like. Plus, bottling out of a keg with the counter pressure...

The ABV is right around 7% but it's not real dry cause of the backsweetening. They're real easy to put down so pace yourself. I'm gonna do a bigger batch here real soon because I drank them up real quick.

Holy Sheet this stuff is good!!!!! Can't stop drinking them! Do it!

Yes indeed the potassium sorbate killed the yeast. You could bottle condition if you didn't backsweeten it with the brown sugar and it would still be good just not as sweet. Initially I had not intended to backsweeten this but I let it go longer in the primary than I had intended too(life got...

Ingredients: 2 Gal Publix Greenwise Apple Juice 8oz Publix Pure Clover Honey 3oz Publix Molasses 2 teaspoons potassium sorbate 1.5 cups Domino Dark Brown Sugar Yeast: Fermentis Salfale S-04 Directions Pour 1.75 gallons apple juice into primary. Heat the remaining apple juice on the...

I've tried the cider again and it's real tart. I like it. We've now over carbed it so it's still a little weird. Gonna let the keg warm up and try again.

Is the party pig worth a crap? I'm thinking about getting one and wondered if anyone had any advice/experience/thoughts on it.

4 weeks! You'll be good at 4 weeks. You could always take a sample to hold you over. Bottle bombs are bad news.

Recipe Type: Extract Yeast: Red Star Montrachet Yeast Starter: Nope Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: None Batch Size (Gallons): 4 Original Gravity: 1.058 Final Gravity: 1.002 Boiling Time (Minutes): None Color: Blush Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 3 Weeks at...

Keeping my cider cool in a tub of water. I put frozen water bottles in to keep the temp down.