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plan looks good. yes it will clear if given enough time, pectic enzyme works pretty well, and don't boil cider, you'll never get it to clear if boiled. You could consider freezing the left over cider for topping off the batch when you rack. I usually have it in primary from 10 days to a month...

make sure your yeast will get you that high

the budweiser brewery and grant's farm both give away 2 free beers...in old st charles there is small brewery called trailhead (it a restaurant as well), If you like wine then highway 94 between agusta and hermann has a ton of wineries (tastings are free).....

perfect thanks for the help

im trying to increase the sweetness of the mead not increase the etoh. i expect ti sorbate/sulfite then backsweeten with honey. just trying to guesstimate how much honey i need to raise the specific gravity a measurable amount....for example a certain amount of homey will raise the specific...

About how much honey will increase 1 gallon of mead about 1% ish during backsweetening?

OK, I have 5 gallons of cyser made with 8 pounds of honey 1/2 pound of dates, 1/2 pound of raisins, and 5 gallons of cider...after every rack was topped off with additional cider. Should end at 14-15% etoh made with d47. It started on Nov 15. It is clear as a bell. I have been thinking of...

will do immediately...thanks

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the original receipe was 5 gallons of cider form local orchard and red star yeast (blue package) and 1 can juice concentrate when botteling, every time it was racked, it was topped for with additional cider, expected etoh of 8.5%. Since I see this as not something I would make a point to buy if...

i did my first cider late last year and it has been 8 months total since primary. I let it dry all the way out with a wine yeast. At botteling and added 1 can of frozen juice concentrate. Halh was immediately bottled and pasturized, half was naturally carbed then pasturized. Time has gone by...

thanks everybody for the help

Ok I have a blueberry mead in primary. 14 lbs homey 5 gallons water, nutrient and d47 and 5 lbs of blueberry, in primary about 7-10 days. My secondary will be an additional 3 pounds of blueberries and 1 month in secondary. Next I want to split the batch into smaller 1 gallon carboys. Im...

I need some opinions. I am making a blueberry mead. 5 gallons water, 14 lbs of wildflower honey, 5 lbs blueberries (mashed / frozen / thawed) nutrient, and d47...primary will go about a week to 10 days i expect. Can I take the blueberries from primary and put them thru a juicer and put...

I have'nt don't it yet but plan to. I saw a guy use a salad rinser to separate the two. It is a bowl with a colander insert that spins. The idea is to put in salad and rinse with water spinning the colander thus keeping the salad in the colander and forcing the water out of the colander into...

thanks every body... I think I will try to heat the cider on the stove then backsweeten prior to botteling...i saw that i should keep the temperature at 140 but for how long? i'm guessing about 20-30 minutes?

Ok new to the forum, please guide me. I have 5 gallons of hard apple cider, 5 gallons of perry and 5 gallons of cyser all in secondary. I read about priming the cider with apple juice concentrate, botteling and waiting util appropriately carbonated, then stovetop pasteurizing. I wanted to...