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Hey Spike, Any idea if/when you'll be hosting another group buy?

How much "Belgian ale" taste was there? Did you think it was well balanced and worthwhile? The recipe looks amazing! Thanks for posting!

Did you want it to have a carbonated cider? If so I'd actually be worried about there being no more fermentation since you added the K sorbate and metabisulfite. As for the pressure I wouldn't be too worried about that, you've added yeast inhibitors which don't necessarily kill the yeast so...

You can always just pasteurize your bottles to kill the yeast and stop and further fermentation. I'm actually going to be bottling a cider this weekend that is still actively fermented and its around 1.030 and I'll be pastuerizing once the carbonation is where I'd like it. There is a sticky...

I just made a batch of this yesterday along with a batch of 5 Day Sweet Country Cider. I used 4.5ish gallons of Honeycrisp apple cider (SG 1.050) and 54oz of blackberries that were soaked in 100 proof vodka for 15min. I added 34oz of plain white table sugar which brought my SG to 1.068. Didn't...

Just made a batch of this yesterday. I used 4.5ish gallons Honeycrisp apple cider with 30oz of Muscovado sugar. I'm hoping the muscovado sugar adds a nice hint of molasses. My cider had a SG of 1.050...the SG of the cider and sugar was 1.066. Started bubbling along nicely in under 12hrs. I'll be...