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First attempt, so far so good... Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Ended up pooring 16oz. Pure black cherry concentrate out of the 48oz. I had purchased. At 3/4 bottle in, still tasted a bit dry then the extra 1/4 bottle hit the sweet spot. Sipping on some leftovers now, still young but not too bad. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Waiting for bottles to sanitize in dishwasher, took a picture of uni blood nice and clear and ready for bottling. Lower left is Dynamic Healths pure 100% black cherry concentrate to flavor and back sweeten. No clue how much I'm gonna use but just took a tiny sip and holy crap, is it strong...

Doing a test batch with one cinnamon stick and about a 1/4 lb brown sugar with store bought pasteurized apple cider. What is the typical OG for this recipe. Shook my one gallon vigorously and ended up with 1.060. If I only let it ferment down to 1.040, my calculated abv will only be 2.6%. Are...

The weekend I'm going back sweeten with this Dynamic Health Concentrate, Black Cherry, 16-Ounce by Dynamic Health http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QVDJ10/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I bought them much cheaper last week, funny what Amazon does with pricing, only paid $20 for 48oz. I'm going to add...

I just moved mine to secondary after 2 1/2 weeks at 1.012, just right for me, not too dry not too sweet. Gonna let it clear and ripen for a couple weeks then back sweeten and bottle carb. You may want to let it go a few more days if it is still fermenting. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

...10hrs in and steady airlock activity every 9-10 seconds... nice!! Edit: fermentation took off on existing yeast cake after 24hrs bubbling every second or less. Now 5 days in, still every 3 seconds. Must be the honey and nutrients! Yeasties lovin' it. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

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Just sent my blood to secondary after 2 1/2 weeks... SG 1.050, now 1.012 with 4 gallons motts and 1 gallon juicy juice cherry. Gonna let it clear and stabilize for a week or two, then back sweeten with dark cherry concentrate out of bottle. No clue how much im gonna throw in as I have 48oz. of...

I just poured my unicorn blood recipe into secondary and poured just over 5 gallons of Walmarts Great Value ( which does taste "great" by the way), lime/tea mixture, 2.5lbs of warmed honey and 5tsp yeast nutrient onto an ale yeast cake. I'll let you know how it takes off... Sent from my iPhone...

Well my wife hates cider but oh well. Just went to Walmart and picked up ingredients. Total was less than $25. I have about a week left on my 5 gallon dark cherry cider before it goes to secondary and was going to dump this batch right onto ale yeast cake. Will this be ok or should it be...

Yes, correct. This will make the yeast go to sleep, but not kill them. Pasteurization would in fact kill them. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Makes sense... I just scored a great deal on amazon for a 5 gallon carboy shipped for $24 so going to transfer recipe to secondary which I have never done. I assume most yeast will be left behind which will yield a slower carb. Am I correct with this assumption?? Sent from my iPhone using Home...

Fantastic idea! I just put some numbers together and I would have some major bottle bombs if I added 48oz of concentrated cherry juice. It would be be more than 5 times too much sugar for carbonation. So, with using the plastic bottle idea and excess sugar in priming, I assume the process with...

Just put together 4 gallons motts AJ and a gallon of juicy juice cherry and pitched an ale yeast. I'm going to back sweeten and prime with these: Dynamic Health , Black Cherry Juice Concentrate, 8-Ounce Bottle, (Pack of 2) by Dynamic Health...

Thanks Phug, just researched it and sounds like a lot of juice and work to get enough for my liking. I think I'll just buy the liquid concentrate and move on. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I only have one cider under my belt and certainly tasted like it. I haven't tried to make Applejack so not sure how to freeze juice to become concentrate. I could always research or you could answer kindly lol! Or if I bought these from amazon, how many should I get, 3-4 I assume... Dynamic...

Nice, never thought about that, time to research making concentrate. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Simple here guys and gals, I have a 5 gallon fermenting for the past couple weeks, 4 gallons motts apple and one gallon pure cherry juice. I am going after a sweeter cherry flavor carbonated in 22oz. bottles with this batch so need advice. I would like to go with 5 cans of frozen cherry...

Great info.^^^^^^^thank you! Learning something new everyday on HomeBrew