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Just an FYI. I made 6 gallons of Ed's Apfelwein and when I racked into my five gallon carboy, I aged the remaining 1 gallon with light toasted oak chips and it turned out super tasty.

I've used S-04 for my last two batches of cider. I like the flavor I'm getting and it seems to be stopping around 1.016-1.018. I added plain sugar to the cider in order to condition (raised sugar level .03) but I'm getting little to no "fizz." My sugar levels are not changing much after two...

I recently took a hydrometer reading of my cider -that has been visibly active for a week, and found that the sugar content hasn't changed (or at least it didn't appear so by my hydrometer reading). On a hunch, I did a quick test and found that the difference in the hydrometer reading was...

I just finished brewing my first batch of hard cider (following the caramel apple hard cider recipe from this site), and it tastes great -thanks upstatemike! I didn't add pectin enzymes (per a suggestion from a shop owner) and it stayed real hazy, but that didn't bother me until I tried to...