Search results

Hi guys my carbonated cider is nearly ready this week. I cracked a bottle and is meant to be strawberry cider but is very dry. I got strawberry extract drops to hand would this help at all or leave me with undrinkable cider??

Thanks it's more or less fully carbonated now so I have strawberry extract to hand mabye a few drops of that per bottle will take some of the dryness away. I'm new to all this so it's trial and error

And what does sorbate do?

Hi I've checked the bottles today and opened one the pressure wasn't too bad only light foam coming out I tasted it and its very dry which is meant to be sweet strawberry. Is there any way of sweetening back up before drinking?

Hi it was a second sweetener to add to the cider then I added sugar to the bottles to carbonate them. No I didn't take sp reading but it was about 8 days and fermenting had appeared to have finished as there was no longer any airlock activity or bubbles in the actual cider.. The sediment seems...

Hi I'm new to home brewing and bought a starter kit with demijohns & bottles. I used a magnum strawberry cider kit and followed the instructions. I rushed into things with been too eager and added the second sweetener into my vessel after 7 day fermentation then stirred and left the cider...