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I believe it was a wine yeast but it might have been a champagne yeast. I had purchased some more appropriate cider yeast but I left it at my place (I had come back home for Thanksgiving and we were making the cider together) so we used a packet we had which I think was a wine yeast. We...

Hey everyone, Today we were preparing to bottle our cider and it had this terrible taste. It was a foul bitter background/after taste. We never used campden (sp?) tablets because we have always made stuff without them and never noticed a real detriment to the taste. Do you think this could...

Wow thanks for the responses everyone. I had thought there was some other more common household sugar that was unfermentable but I guess not. After I used the search term unfermentable I got all the results on google that I wanted. We ended up putting in some more sugar for now to get a...

Hey everyone. First shot at making cider here. I don't have the recipe we used it but was something like 4 gallons of cider and 2 lbs of brown sugar. The yeast we used wasn't quite what we needed since we don't have a local shop and decided to use what we had. We used a wine yeast in hopes...