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Well that's great! And now u have got a bigger "kick" as well! Lol

How much potassium sorbate is recommended for 5 gallons? Also, can the cam tabs attribute a bitter flavor? I added 5 for 5 gallons of my last batch of cider and let it sit on the tabs for a couple weeks. When I transferred and taste tested it, it had a very bitter taste to it...

I am looking to back sweeten a batch of cider. I want to use cider concentrate, and I want to keg it. I will eventually bottle out of the kegs well. I am wondering if there is anything other than pasteurizing or campdem tablets that would stop fermentation? I have lost faith in campdem when I...

I try... Lol

Dang... :(

I think USM says that bc in the directions he has you make the caramel at the same time that you add the 5 campdem tablets. So when he says wait 24 hrs, I think he is referring to the 24 hr wait period needed to let the tablet evaporate out.., but I could b wrong...

I stopped a little shying getting it all bc I didn't want the majority of the water to start melting, but with that said, I got about 4 cups I think... I didn't measure it out so I don't know for sure...

You can do that, but it will alter the taste... Cooked cider tastes much different than fresh non cooked cider. Freezing it prevents the change of taste. When I did the freezing method, I took a gravity reading before freezing and it was 1.040... After I froze and let it thaw, I took another...

Speaking from my brain... Not complete experience. Adding plain pressed cider would dilute it quite a bit due to the high percentage of water. What I did to use fresh pressed cider as a sweetener, was I put a gallon of cider in a gallon plastic jug. I froze it. Once solid I then let is slowly...

So after it gets to the final sweetness that you are looking for what is your plan? Add 5 more campdem tablets, leave it exposed to air for it to evaporate off for 24 hrs. Transfer to another keg, carb and serve?

Have u re pitched yet? Any fermentation taking place?

Sounds like a plan... Keep us posted bc I am curious as to how it turns out! :)

I used fresh pressed cider and everything said to add campdem tablets before adding my yeast to kill any wild yeast. I posed the same question, and I was told that after adding the campdem, you just have to allow the container to be open for 24 hours bc it slowly evaporates. So I just put a...

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Hahaha no worries! I hear ya on that one! Lol

It sounded to me that he had already added 5 cans if AJC and is looking for a solution to save the batch now that it is over sweetened... That's why I suggested adding yeast again to start fermentation over again. Either in the keg with the center spring peg taken out of the gas connect with a...

Hopefully someone else will chime in bc I can't think of a way to desweeten... Other than reintroducing yeasty to start fermentation back up until the sweetness is to your liking... But I could be way off, it is just a thought...

On pg. 42 USM "rewrote" the recipe and changed the AJC amount to 3 cans due to the overwhelming sweetness of 5 cans...

Is there a reason that one would be better?

That would be the one!