IwanaBrich
Well-Known Member
I'm making my first batch of Hard Cider and I have a question about bottling it.
To make the cider, I used 5 gallons of Apple juice from Costco to which I added 4 lbs of corn sugar and Montrachet yeast. No one locally had any cider yeast and I was afraid to use nautual yeast from an apple skin. I'm using my 5 gallon, glass carboy with an airlock as the fermenter. It's been bubbling away for just over a week now and its starting to slow down, so I know I'm going to have to bottle it soon.
Originally I was planning to bottle it similar to the way I have done for beer and used priming sugar, but I was wondering if I could use a small amount of apple cider in its place. I'm thinking that adding apple juice into the hard cider will add back in some apple flavor. Is there is enough sugar in the added apple cider to charge the bottles? Has anyone tried this? If so, does anyone know how much apple? Is it a waste of time?
Your help is apprciated!
Bob
To make the cider, I used 5 gallons of Apple juice from Costco to which I added 4 lbs of corn sugar and Montrachet yeast. No one locally had any cider yeast and I was afraid to use nautual yeast from an apple skin. I'm using my 5 gallon, glass carboy with an airlock as the fermenter. It's been bubbling away for just over a week now and its starting to slow down, so I know I'm going to have to bottle it soon.
Originally I was planning to bottle it similar to the way I have done for beer and used priming sugar, but I was wondering if I could use a small amount of apple cider in its place. I'm thinking that adding apple juice into the hard cider will add back in some apple flavor. Is there is enough sugar in the added apple cider to charge the bottles? Has anyone tried this? If so, does anyone know how much apple? Is it a waste of time?
Your help is apprciated!
Bob