Recent content by Makilio

Ok, thank you! So I should let it continue to sit for 60 days, then add sorbate + my juice to sweeten? Should I add pectic enzyme now, later, ever? After this batch I can try to do sweet carbonated cider, but this one I just want to have sweet cider.

I have fermented it for 3 weeks now, but it is still not clear. Do I just wait for it until it is?

Ok, I will add it before I add juice. I just want flavor, carbonation is not a priority yet, each batch is one extra step for me to try! Thank you I will look at it. Sometimes with my English it can be hard to understand it all.

Hi all, I am making my cider (juice, cider yeast, nothing else). I have had it sit for about 18 days now, and I am a little lost what next to do. I want to add juice/fruit to it. I do not have hydrometer (I am going to buy next time I am at the shop) so no readings. Would this be ok, you think...

Ok, I understand now. Sometimes my English fails me. I think I have found the cooler pasteurizing post, so I will try this method. Thank you, a lot.

I might not understand you right, but why should I pasteurize? Stabilizing is hard for me, I do not have potassium sorbate and it is hard to get easily in my country, just not many places with it, so I think your method might be good for me to try. So I would bottle with the fruit flavor...

Thanks everyone, so this is my plan, maybe. I'm doing a small batch of cider right now, I just finished 2 large ones and wanted this to be for the experiment reasons. Only 10 liter. I will let me current batch sit for some days more, then add raspberries (or mango, I have not picked yet) frozen...

Ok, so, for example, I will get some frozen raspberries, mash them up a little, then add in at the end of primary and let it sit another couple weeks then I can bottle? Is it possible that the fruit will mold or rot? And last question - will it make flavor sweet or dry? I want a sweeter cider.

I think frozen, fresh or fruit juice would be most likely. I assume to add after primary is complete?

Hi everyone. I have a general question, I want to learn some of your ideas/technique for adding fruit and fruit flavor to the cider you make. I have a very basic batch that is maybe 3/4ths done, apple juice, yeast and that is it. But I want to add fruit flavor, like mango, raspberry, whatever...

Thank you, this is exactly the info I was needing!

Yes, but I just got it, so I do not have original gravity.

Hello, I made a thread yesterday about this question but now it is not here and I am redirected to a unrelated thread, so maybe it is a mistake and I will ask again. Sorry if there is mistake for this. I made my second batch of cider, using apple juice, brown sugar and champagne yeast (I do not...

Hello. A few months ago I posted on here for my first time making the cider, saying how it went badly. I moved so I could not try again until now, and wanted to give update and ask some question. I was maybe to complex last time, and it failed because of that. So this time I decide to do it...

Than you, everyone. I will use your advice and give updates soon. I appreciate it a lot :)