This is my first cider and maybe I pushed to hard to fast but here it is...
I started with 5 gallons of juice I used a gallon of water and disolved, on the stove, 3lbs of dme and 5lbs of table sugar. This put my OG at a 1.096 I pithed a wine/cider yeast from the lhbs. It has been fermenting strong now for about twelve days (way longer than any of my brews) and it has little to no sweetnes left and it around a 1.035.
What I want is a sweet-ish cider that I can bottle carb with out blowing bottles. I have read about cold crashing and pasterising but I still dont know how I should proceed to reach my goals or if it is even possible... please help
Bottled: wet dream strawberry blonde ale and caramel king scotch ale
Secondary: Perves cider
Primary: American honey nut brown ale
I started with 5 gallons of juice I used a gallon of water and disolved, on the stove, 3lbs of dme and 5lbs of table sugar. This put my OG at a 1.096 I pithed a wine/cider yeast from the lhbs. It has been fermenting strong now for about twelve days (way longer than any of my brews) and it has little to no sweetnes left and it around a 1.035.
What I want is a sweet-ish cider that I can bottle carb with out blowing bottles. I have read about cold crashing and pasterising but I still dont know how I should proceed to reach my goals or if it is even possible... please help
Bottled: wet dream strawberry blonde ale and caramel king scotch ale
Secondary: Perves cider
Primary: American honey nut brown ale