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Has anyone had success flavoring a cider with orange? Looking for results from orange concentrate vs. orange juice vs. orange zest vs. commercial orange flavoring...?

Update: a couple days later and now this. Gas lock is bubbling about once every 1.5 seconds. So it's active apparently! Just gonna wait out the primary I guess, unless someone says otherwise?

I am making my first batch of cider using fresh pressed cider (two batches made with commercially made juice). I used 5 gal of juice, 5 crushed campden tabs, brown sugar and a Cote de Blancs yeast, temp at about 70. In my first two batches, the gas lock bubbled in about 2 days, this one did...

Hello all- I'm on my third batch of cider and I'm looking for flavoring ideas. My first couple batches were simple ciders with berry concentrate juice added at the end. Residual yeast made for good carbonation after a couple of weeks. Any suggestions for successful flavors/juices added during...

I put mine in a bathtub next to a shuttered window, but wrapped it in a towel to keep the UV out. The problem was that it fermented at around 76*. My next batch sat in a somewhat darkened room in my house farther from the sun and fermented at about 68*-70*. Hoping it turns out good; fermentation...