johnson1985
Active Member
Hi, I've posted a couple of times on here before and found the answers very helpful, as I now have 27 wine bottles full of cider maturing!
Anyway, I bottled them last night, which involved me syphoning the cider from the DJ's to a bucket, adding 1kg of lactose to sweeten a bit, as well as about 80grams of priming sugar, and then syphoning off into bottles and then corked them. I did some calculations and found that about 80grams of sugar should give the cider about 2 volumes of CO2...
...I left them in the garage overnight and today realised that as it's getting pretty cold out at night now I should have left them inside as the cold might stop the carbonation from happening?? Is that right? (they felt like they had been left in the fridge).
Also, am I right in thinking that if I leave them inside for a few days for the fermentation/carbonation to give the cider some sparkle, I can then put them back in the garage to mature??
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Anyway, I bottled them last night, which involved me syphoning the cider from the DJ's to a bucket, adding 1kg of lactose to sweeten a bit, as well as about 80grams of priming sugar, and then syphoning off into bottles and then corked them. I did some calculations and found that about 80grams of sugar should give the cider about 2 volumes of CO2...
...I left them in the garage overnight and today realised that as it's getting pretty cold out at night now I should have left them inside as the cold might stop the carbonation from happening?? Is that right? (they felt like they had been left in the fridge).
Also, am I right in thinking that if I leave them inside for a few days for the fermentation/carbonation to give the cider some sparkle, I can then put them back in the garage to mature??
any help would be greatly appreciated!