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My Apfelwein will be 1 year old next month. I bottle primed it 2 mos ago with corn sugar and just cracked open my first one. It's really fizzy and has a slight yeast smell but it don't really taste yeasty. I think maybe it needs to age some more.

Mine has been in the primary for 9 mos now. I want to bottle condition it with Dextrose. Do I need to add more yeast? The LBS said I would need to add a package of champagne yeast to my 3 gal.

Musselman's Fresh Pressed Apple Cider. The only ingredients were juice and ascorbic acid. Thats the way it looked in the jugs. Not clear like Tree Top or Langers.

Apfelwein on the left and Grahams English Cider on the right after 5 mos. The Apfelwein looks more like grapefruit juice. I used Musselman's Apple Cider, which was cloudy to begin with. Just figured I would take a pic before I bottled.

Thats good to know Doctor. I see your going to start some Grahams Cider. I've also got 5 gals of it that I started 5 mos ago. Need to bottle it too.

My Apfelwein is right at 5 mos old. Still in the primary carboy. I used the exact recipe as the OP. Is it too late to carb just using dextrose when I go to bottle it?

After 3 months my Apfelwein finally quit bubbling this week. Now I just have to decide how I'm going to bottle it.

I made a 3 gal batch exactly like the recipe in the OP. 8 weeks later and there are still hundreds of tiny bubbles constantly rising.

I got 3 gal of Apfelwein and 5 gal of Grahams English cider that I started 3 weeks ago. Came close to starting some Graff too but decided not to. Didn't want a bunch of stuff ready all at once.

I started a 3 gal batch of Apfelwein and 5 gals of cider one week ago. I have them both in the kitchen and have never even noticed any smell unless I put my nose right up to the airlock, and I live in a small mobile home. ETA: I forgot that I did add nutrient to the cider. But not to the...

I also did 5 gal of Langers today only with s-04. Hoping to see some action in the air lock when I get up tomorrow morning.

I just made a 5 gal batch exactly like the recipe in the OP. Was I supposed to dissolve the nutrient before I added it? I just dumped everything in without stirring. Or will the action from fermenting mix things up?

18,107 + 3 = 18,110 gals :cool: