not added enough brewing sugar to my cider kit, been fermenting 4 days. what do i do?

You'll be fine.

What are the instructions for fermentation?

As "me" stated you'll be fine. Even if you hadn't added it you would have been fine. The simple sugars only increase the alcohol levels. You might have ended up with 6% instead of 7% (or something like that) The flavors are mostly going to come from the kit ingredients which I assume are a concentrate.

thats brilliant. thanks

You might need a new direction with fermentation. You're not out of the woods yet.

itsme6582 said:

You might need a new direction with fermentation. You're not out of the woods yet.

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Adding sugar late in the fermentation will just create more fermentation. I don't understand your statement.

I could go dump a pound of sugar in my cider right now and it will just kick back in and make more alcohol, it won't cause any problems. Well, it might take a little longer for it to mellow out the higher ABV, but I can't think of any other issues it would cause.

Just give it a few more days to finish off the sugars you added and you'll be fine.

I'm wrong but you suggested he wait a few extra days. Hmmm

so you reckon another 3 days and it will be ok to bottle? also would i be able to add fruit juices to my mix to alter the flavours again. thinking of adding some cranberry juice to my brew to make it more of a cranberry flavoured cider. would this work, and how / what stage would i do this?

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I'm wrong but you suggested he wait a few extra days. Hmmm

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I never said you were wrong, I said I didn't understand your statement. When you wrote they 'needed a new direction' did you mean wait a few more days? If so, then my apologies. I didn't mean to be redundant.

Your totally fine Ogden..... As Pepper said your just bumping the fermentable sugar back up...
You need to test with a hydrometer in 4 or 5 days...

All good in the proverbial hood.