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Juice is from safeway, but is fresh pressed 100 percent apple juice. Very cloudy, and even a little bit of sediment at the bottom. Just wondering
Will a cider that starts out cloudy ever clear
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It will most likely clear. Use pectic enzyme to add some assurance. 
All ciders start out cloudy unless you use filter apple juice, but thats for little girls. Use pectic enzyme as Nick said. It will will likely not clear without it.
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I actually don't really care if it clears as long as taste is not affected, I was just wondering if it was something I should be waiting for.
Generally speaking yes and no. Moving into secondary is to take the cider of the lees which does two things; 1. helps clear the cider and 2. prevents off flavors from the lees.
If the cider will clear that's generally when you want to bottle. There however is no reason to wait for it to clear. But you do want to wait for the lees to fall out of suspension. I suggests you let it sit at least 2 weeks in a secondary container after fermentation to allow the lees to fall out. It will taste better if you do and you will have limited bottle sediment.
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Yeah, I have three other non-apple batches in secondary right now. I plan on racking this to secondary with some cinnamon sticks
Have made about 100 gallons of cider. Both filtered and unfiltered.
I haven't noticed a difference in the final product what so ever.
Yea it clears. Unless you boil it for some reason.
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I believe the real question is will your ciders be bottled still, fizzy, or sweet and fizzy?
I press my own apples and I have a unfiltered juice batch sitting in my basement that's cloudy after 3 months. People also purposely make cloudy cider, I believe that's part of the idea of scrumpy. My point is that all ciders do not clear. Perhaps its because you only use juice that you have had the product clear. Also you didn't indicate if you used pectic enzyme or not. If you did of course it cleared. On that note, do you think they make pectic enzyme for no reason?
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I used pectic enzyme for my batch and VERY cloudy when racked to secondary. When should I expect it to clear?
