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Thanks for the advice. I added 1/2 teaspoon of sorbate /gallon right after your post. I think it was about 12 hours after I added the campden tablets. Hopefully that will do the trick.

I am going to be bottling my Cider in the next few days. My plan is to sweeten the cider with some of the extra cider I saved. The extra cider has been frozen since September and recently thawed in the refeigerator. Last night I added campden tablets to the actual "Hard Cider" to stabilize, and...

Just curious, how much priming sugar did you use? A lot of the other threads I came across suggested using splenda also.

Sheesh...That was the perfect thread to answer what I needed...I swear that I searched for similar topics before posting...:confused:

I have a batch of cider this will be finished soon. I wanted to sweeten with some apple juice I saved, but I also wanted to carb it. Most of the threads I have came across are doing one or the other. So my question is: is it possible to sweeten with apple juice and bottle carb? If it is...

You have Mail. Can you send a Pic also with the reply?

How many times have you used it? Can you post some pics?

I could have used a homebrew at this point

I had a "blow over" issue on my current batch on Apple cider. I also used the English Cider yeast and had to install a blow off tube for about a week....

I am doing a similar wine, but with Apples instead of grapes (my first wine too). When do you plan to rack to secondary?

I am making the following recipe for Apple Wine: 5 Gallon Fresh pressed apple juice 5lbs cane sugar Lalvin EC-1118 OG 1.085 I pitched the yeast on September 21st and have had a real vigorous fermentation so far. My question is: When do you normally move to the Secondary? My recipe says...

Sams Club has a 5 gallon pot for apx $20 - http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=328609 I bought the 15 gallon pot for about $45.

+1 on Yoopers comment. I am doing the same thing as balto and like the method you suggest. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice. I was thinking that I might split the 6 gallons into separate batches to experiment with the sweetener. I thought I would try stevia, the LD Carlson fruit extract and have another that is unsweetened. My father in law has about 400 apple trees and has a pretty awesome...

This thing was awesome!

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Also, how do you gauge the amount of sweetener to use? My guess is that you just sweeten to taste? If that is the case, can you give me an estimate of how much is a normal amount to add? (ie, 1tbsp/gallon of stevia)

I guess unfermentable sugar it is.. What are your thoughts on the product in the link I sent? Have you had any experience with that apple flavoring? I guess It may only be the apple flavor and not be meant for sweetening, but I thought it might work. What type of sweetener is normally used to...

I am attempting my first Cider and have some questions about how to sweeten without creating bottle bombs. My recipe is pretty simple: 6 gallons of Fresh pressed apple juice, 6 cups of sugar, Fresh squeezed lemon juice, and White Labs English Cider Yeast. Yesterday I squeezed the apples and...

That sounds alot like my process except I sit on the floor to fill.