Recent content by JohnDemallow

Thankyou Shaika-Dzari, I babysit by having a "plastic" coke bottle as "control unit" and normal glass/beer bottles with flip top. I add sugar and wait for the plastic bottle to go firm and then I put the glass bottles in water and gradually heat up to 80 degC and separately cold crash/freeze...

Thankyou ! I understand your point about fermentation restarting when back sweetening with table sugar. Once the juice has cleared I intend to rack it, add sugar, babysit to ensure no runaway carbonation/re-fermentation and pasteurize the bottle at 80 degC in hot water bath. That should finish...

I am new. My "prior experience" is limited to ginger beer, sauerkraut and "graduation" with one exploded bottle. Sanitation is by liquid detergent and then boiling water. Where I live it is always between 27-30 degC. I work with small 250ml-500ml batches. I have some manually juiced, 1) apple 2)...