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Hello everybody, I started a Cyser on Saturday January 16th with the following recipe: 2.2 lbs honey 1 gallon apple juice (spreadsheet says 0.81 gallons) 1/2 packet 71B-1122 ¾ tsp nutrient ½ tsp energizer Its been going now for a week and a half and I have a few questions about it...

Would you guys be able to tell me what DME is? Thanks.

I measured the SG of my apple juice to be 1.05. So I plan on using the following recipe. Not having any experience, but from using hightests spreadsheet, this should ferment to a medium sweet mead. 2.2 lbs honey ~1 gallon apple juice (spreadsheet says 0.81 gallons) 1/2 packet 71B-1122 ¾...

All right. I went and bought my gear today. I got Lalvin 71B-1122 for the yeast and picked up some nutrient and energizer made by ABC Cork. The store I went to does not have Fermaid K so that kind of sucked. The yeast nutrient says to add 1 tsp per gallon and the energizer says to add...

That was a quick reply. I shall do that then.

I was looking at the Lalvin 71B-1122 last night and noticed in the datasheet that its says to pitch 25-40g/hl. At 40g/hl that comes out to 1.5g/gallon. So that means I wouldn't need the whole pack then. Is there a conversion from weight to teaspoons?

Thanks for telling me about the spreadsheet. I will go buy a hydrometer tomorrow so I can measure the SG of my apple juice. Then I will run some numbers and see if you guys agree with me on them.

You all have convinced me now. I will go with the Sweet Cyser. Sweet Cyser 1 gallon apple juice 3 lbs honey 1 packet 71B-1122 or a Riesling yeast or D-47 ¾ tsp diammonium phosphate ½ tsp Fermaid K If one wanted to use water instead of apple juice, would the nutrients need to be...

Thanks for the comment CandleWineProject. I had read that before. I looked all over the label and couldn't find anything mentioning preservatives in it so it should hopefully work as long as I don't bung anything up, except the carboy.

Thanks for the replies again. I think for my second batch I will go for a lower alcohol tolerant yeast but for now I was thinking of using the EC-1118. My intention was to try and get the dry cyser like the article says will be produced and then sweeten it if I don’t like it. I don’t like...

Thanks guys. I planned on doing a one gallon batch with this. So these would be acceptable methods to achieve a sweeter mead then: 1. Start with more honey. 2. Add Potassium Sorbate and sugar after fermentation is done to add sweetness back in (backsweeten). 3. Start with same amount of...

So I plan on making a simple Cyser. It calls for: 1 gallon of apple juice 2-4 lbs honey (I got 2.2 lbs) 1 packet of champagne yeast (I will probably get EC-1118 because its all over here locally) It says in the text that this will produce a dry cyser. I was wondering how one would make...

Thanks for the replys. My confidence has now been boosted. I will keep your advice in mind jezter6.

Hello. I am new to this forum as well as to mead making. I wanted to try a simple cyser recipe in a 1 gallon batch. My wife picked up some apple juice today and I was just wondering if it will work fine. It is Sun-Rypes unsweetened Pure Apple Juice. The ingredients lists Apple Juice and...