Love the work everyone. Hope it gets to a point where we can safely reproduce this at home.
To be clear, are you adding priming sugar to a dry, cold crashed, racked cider?
Because I recently cold crashed a fermenting cider at 1.020 ... bottled... and tested 12 hours later and had adequate carbonation. If noobs read this, and think it will take two weeks for their sweet cider to carbonate in the bottle before pasteurizing, someone is going to die. Can you give more info, preferably edited into your OP, about the cider going into your experiment?
Great discussion guys, thanks for all your work.
I was doing a little research on the internet on the pressure characteristics of plastic bottles, and if this would be a useable container for cider, especially if I were to pasteurize the bottles using the technique RukusDM is using in this post (that's the only source of bottles I have right now, but hope to get glass bottles in the future).
Some of the information I found seems to indicate that they can handle the pressures that you have mentioned in this post. Some say the pressure of a 2 litter pop bottle will handle around a max pressure of 60-70psi., While others indicate they quite regularly fill them up to 120psi. (I don't know the accuracy of this info though).
Another concern that I saw was that under pressure, plastic bottles will stretch, increasing their volume. If true, I would think that a person wouldn't want to use plastic bottles over and over, as this would greatly affect the bottles ability to withstand pressures. Someone else mentioned that the kind of plastic used in pop bottles does allow oxygen absorption through the plastic. This may be another concern, if true, for long term storage of cider in plastic bottles. I will try to do further research to verify this info.
This may be information that is widely known, I don't know as I am new to this hobby/obsession. If someone out there knows more on this, I would love to here what they know.
I am currently just about ready to bottle my first batch of cider. I think I will go ahead and let this batch go almost dry, then back sweeten for the amount of carbonation I want, then bottle. The next batch I will shoot for something in line with what RukusDM is looking for in this thread.
Thanks Guys!
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