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I'll go in the spirit that you can make a great hard cider. Carbonation - IMHO is the final step and something that's done once the Cider is ready to drink. So if you are kegging and sending, presumably you are sending a keg that is full of cider and no oxygen. Upon reaching it's destination...

I'm currently drinking the end of a cider keg that has been fantastic. I have never done a campden/sorbate - however I also like extremely dry ciders - so there's not really any sugar left for fermentation. The keg is kept cold and under about 5-10psi from CO2. So no, I wouldn't say it's...

Final update - popped open one of the bottles today - no detonation - in fact I seem to have successfully silenced the over-sugaring. It's not extra sweet, but not nearly as heavily carbonated as the rest of the batch. So successfully prevented a bottle bomb so far.

Maylar, thanks for commenting - this is what I've been wrestling with - adding to fermentation, or working on flavoring later. Perhaps I'll take a measure at the start, and if it is 1.050 or around that, I'll give it a shot as is. Would you still do some flavoring in a secondary?

That was one of the points I was debating. 1.08 is probably too high. Looking for probably an 8% abv?

Batch #1 - came out well - yummy, carbonated, mostly dry. Batch #2 - Dry as the Sahara, heavily carbonated, but not bad. Now time to plan for batch #3 - learned a bit, have a plan, and looking for any input. Goal is a dry bold carbonated bottled cider using the components I have. I'm...

There's definitely some strong pressure build-up. I popped the tops after 3 hours - then again after 12, then just now after about 28. Nothing cracked up yet - about the pressure of a bottle of champagne. I'll pop them once again tomorrow, then probably try to let them go after that. I'm now...

I did a quick response - but it seems to be held up... I did 2.5 TSP sugar in a 500mL bottle Should be 3/4 TSP. I've popped the cap once, I'm thinking I can pop the cap a couple times in the first couple days, and after that it'll be better? Or am I playing with fire and should drop...

I sugared for liter bottles - so 2.5 TSP sugar. Rest of the bottles I did just 3/4 TSP. So that's a 500mL bottle with 2.5 TSP of sugar. To be fair - something seems off in my process as my 1 liter bottle I just opened up is quite flat. Decent flavor and alcohol, but quite flat. I...

I'm trying my hand at brewing my own cider, just bottled up a batch in some new glass bottles in the flippy re-usable tops. Nice big liter bottles, sanitized then added sugar to give some carbonation. 6 bottles in I realized my error. These are 500mL bottles... now with way too much sugar. I...