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  1. jcoates

    Mushroom corks for wine bottles

    Hi everyone.... I have been bottling cider recycled beer bottles with crown caps. Would really like to move to recycles wine bottles with Champaign style mushroom corks and wire cages to give to my friends... I just like the old world aesthetic. I don't know much about corks and I cant seem to...
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    new to cider

    so... if I ferment 1/2 gallon of apple juice for a week and then add 1/2 gallon berry juice... will I retain more berry flavor? Will the whole 1 gallon mix (apple + berries) end at the same abv either way?
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    new to cider

    I have been batching cider with 50% apple and 50% other juices... pear, blackberry, cherry, (also grown sugar, honey, etc). Would I be just as well off to make a 5 gal batch of high abv apple and then mix 50/50 with berry juices when bottling? Would this retain more of the berry flavor? If so...
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    Greetings from Virginia

    Hi everyone! I am new to brewing so... Thank you for all of the wonderful brew content within your posts. I am currently brewing 1 gal cider batches to find my favorite mix. I'm focusing on berry mixes that are all half apple. My inspiration is the Crispin Blackberry Pear :) I have bottled 2...
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    Apple blackberry cider

    I forgot to mention. I used 2g of Cider House Select Premium Yeast. I was going to add the honey but after reading other forums about honey it sounded complicated do i bailed.
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    Apple blackberry cider

    I am very new to cider... only on second 1 gal batch and first is only 10 days old today. Couldn't wait to start again. So I made up a recipe for the 2nd batch. Qt Blackberry Crush, Qt Pear juice, 2 Qt Apple juice, 1 Tbl regular sugar. Its bubbling like crazy. I don't have a meter yet so no...
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