Hi all! Today I bottled my first batch of hard Cider. So satisfying to make this and bottle it!
Now that I'm done, I'm going over my process and I'm a bit nervous about it, especially about the priming sugar and for bottle carbonation.
my process was as follows:
25-3
Start! 17,5 liters (3,7 gallons) of apple juice, Yeast Roeselaere Ale Yeast (Wyeast 3763) into the fermenter, put a lid on it and wait! temperature round about 65 the whole way through.
starting gravity 1.045
26-3
Fermentation start
28-3
Fermentation super active
15-4
still going, bubbling along.
reading: 1.010
26-4
still bubbling, but slower
reading: 1.005
12-5
almost silent
reading 1.001
17-5
silent, except for a fart every here and there
reading 1.000
24-5 Bottling day
reading 1.000
So, today I bottled. 16,5 liters. I first racked the cider from the fermenter to a second bucket, degassed it (although it didn't give of a lot of bubbles at all, after two minutes of stirring the cider was very still.)
Added 69 grams of cane sugar dissolved in water, to aim for 2.3 volumes of CO2 in the bottle. stirred it again for a minute or so to make sure my sugar water mixed in well with the cider.
Bottled it in this bottle, capped it (crowns).
I think I did it all correct, but since it's my first time I am worried that I missed something. What do you think?
Now that I'm done, I'm going over my process and I'm a bit nervous about it, especially about the priming sugar and for bottle carbonation.
my process was as follows:
25-3
Start! 17,5 liters (3,7 gallons) of apple juice, Yeast Roeselaere Ale Yeast (Wyeast 3763) into the fermenter, put a lid on it and wait! temperature round about 65 the whole way through.
starting gravity 1.045
26-3
Fermentation start
28-3
Fermentation super active
15-4
still going, bubbling along.
reading: 1.010
26-4
still bubbling, but slower
reading: 1.005
12-5
almost silent
reading 1.001
17-5
silent, except for a fart every here and there
reading 1.000
24-5 Bottling day
reading 1.000
So, today I bottled. 16,5 liters. I first racked the cider from the fermenter to a second bucket, degassed it (although it didn't give of a lot of bubbles at all, after two minutes of stirring the cider was very still.)
Added 69 grams of cane sugar dissolved in water, to aim for 2.3 volumes of CO2 in the bottle. stirred it again for a minute or so to make sure my sugar water mixed in well with the cider.
Bottled it in this bottle, capped it (crowns).
I think I did it all correct, but since it's my first time I am worried that I missed something. What do you think?