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    Graham's English Cider

    Thanks beren, just like champaign so no worries about exploding bottles as long as I stick with prescribed amounts.
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    Graham's English Cider

    Thanks Bernard. Long time winemaker here and am familiar with stabilizing wine (believe you and I discussed an elderberry wine some time back). As SOP, I use sorbate and KMeta when backsweetening a wine. The recipe confused me by adding priming sugar for the bottle carbonization of the cider...
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    Graham's English Cider

    Totally new to ciders and really confused after reading thru the entire thread. Here’s my question: If my my final gravity is 1.000 or less AND I add the appropriate amount of priming sugar per available calculators, do I need to pasteurized at any point or will be bottles be good (no bottle...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    Thanks to you both for the help:thumbsup:! Balrog: Really weird! I plugged my numbers back into the calculator and got 5.8 oz too. Guess I could have gotten "fat-fingered" on the keyboard but all is good and will go with your 2. 6 value and 5.2 oz dextrose. Doug293cz: Thanks for jumping in...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    WOW! You brewers are a strange bunch!!😉 I'm a winemaker and we're generally trying to get rid of CO2 not produce it so this priming/volumes of CO2 thing is completely foreign to me!!!:oops: I checked out the beer priming calculator provided by Brewer's Friend and came up with the following: If...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    Thanks Balrog! Kinda thought that either one would work but didn't know if there was an advantage to either one. Did you carbonate or bottle still? If carbonated, did the swing tops hold pressure OK? I plan to carbonate according to the original recipe (3/4 cup dextrose to the 5 gal batch). I...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    When you bottle your apfelwein, what type of bottles do you use? Thinking about using swing tops instead of pop tops. Any thoughts pro or con? Thanks in advance.
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    Thanks Bernard:) Will add to my "Santa" list. Again, appreciate your help. John
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    I was unaware that he had authored other books. The one I have is First Steps in Winemaking. Could you supply other titles please? I'd like to add them to my collections. Thanks again.
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    Thanks Bernard, Believe I had come across this vid in my search; lots of good info. Just came in from cycling and I noticed some late-blooming elders. I may be able to find some others that are not in a nature reserve, harvest a pint of flowers and weigh them. I'll let you and others know if...
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    The recipe I was considering called for 1 pint - loosely packed / gal. Not much help - kinda like "how long is a piece of string":rolleyes::D I'll post for others who may have the same question if I can figure it out. May end up winging it and see how it turns out and make adjustments from...
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    Thanks DuncB Yep, mine turned dark also but figured since they were frozen, they couldn't have deteriorated in flavor. The recipes I find give a volume quantity for the flowers and they all vary considerably from 1 pint/ gal all the way to 1 gal (US) to the gallon and up to 100 flower heads...
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    Amount of Elderflowers to use

    I gathered about 23 oz (after stripping from stalks) of elderflowers in preparation of making 5 gallons of wine. My schedule was interruped and I froze the flowers. I'm ready to start the wine but a little uncertain of how many ounces of the flowers to use for the 5 gal batch. Any...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    Thanks Miraculix for the fast reply 👍🙂. Headed to Costco early this week to pick up a few things and will grab 5 gals of the Motts Apple juice - seems to be what a lot of folks are using. I was wondering if the dextrose contributed anything other than facilitating yeast activity/feeding that...
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    Man, I love Apfelwein

    Apfelwein newbie here - just found this thread this morning and would like to give this a try but have a couple of questions if anyone has time: Does dextrose add a particular element to the Apfelwein or can ordinary table sugar be used? Would like to bottle in 750 ml wine bottles and age for a...
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