Recent content by johnson1985

Hi, we have a king keg filled with 25 litres of cider and are looking to force carbonate it. However, the valve is an old one, so we need to buy a new valve and some c02 canisters. Is an s30 valve a good idea? If so, where can we get some co2 that fits that valve? Any help would be much...

The sediment in the bottle really does change the taste of the cider, and the problem is that as soon as I tilt the bottle to pour it starts mixing in with the cider. I think I'm going to leave it out in the garage for longer and hopefully the sediment will become more compact at the bottom so...

ok cheers for the tips,...I think i might try to pour them into new bottles leaving the sediment behind, I wonder if that'd lose carbonation though....

Hi, I have a bit of a problem. I currently have about 15 1 litre bottles of carbonated cider (used priming sugar) sitting in my garage ready to drink. They all have a small amount of sediment at the bottom. When drinking a bottle, the first couple of glasses taste pretty good, however, as...

ahhh ok - so when I transfer them to the 2litre bottles I should transfer the sediment as well? It's a Young's Cider Yeast - I'm not sure what temperature it works best at or anything though...

Hi, I've left my cider in wine bottles outside in the cold garage for a couple of nights now and am planning on transferring it to plastic bottles so that I can add priming sugar to carbonate. However, I've heard that this 'cold-crashing' removes the yeast from the cider? Will there be any...

a 22? is that a keg? I have a king keg but dont have any co2 to use with it....

Hi, would it be possible to carbonate my cider in plastic bottles using priming sugar, and then once carbonated transfer the cider to wine bottles to mature?

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Ok cheers, any thoughts on the temperatures that this Young's Cider yeast can withstand?? I've left the bottles in the garage tonight (and its pretty bloody cold out so i think they should be Ok), and tomorrow evening I'm planning on transferring all the cider into a keg that I have which has...

hey thanks for all the responses... the yeast we used was Young's Cider Yeast, used 5grams for about 20L. Pappers, we let the cider ferment in a big bucket for 4 days (primary fermentation??), and then in demijohns for 4 weeks. It ended up very clear, had stopped bubbling and there was lots of...

also, will leaving the bottled cider in the cold garage stop the carbonation process?

ok, advice taken! The thing is, it has been two days since I bottled them, and nothing has happened - maybe there is no yeast left for them to carbonate? I think I'm either going to transfer them to a big plastic keg thing with an air valve on it (which I dont think will carbonate it) or just...

uh-oh yeah i did use wine bottles - are you sure that just 80grams of sugar will cause them to explode?? Maybe I could leave them in plastic bottles, to let them carbonate then transfer them back to the wine bottles to mature??

Hi, I've posted a couple of times on here before and found the answers very helpful, as I now have 27 wine bottles full of cider maturing! Anyway, I bottled them last night, which involved me syphoning the cider from the DJ's to a bucket, adding 1kg of lactose to sweeten a bit, as well as...