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Every year I make apple cider with my friends. This year, a friend of mine asked me to make sparkling cider for the toast at her wedding. I've made sparkling cider before, I usually bottle condition it similarly to beer, 3/4 c sugar per 6 gals, however since it is for a toast, I want to make...

I am fermenting some cider and I've got a really stubborn stuck fermentation. When I first pitched the yeast, it went mad and fermented down from 1.080 to 1.038 in about 3 days, but then it stopped. I've tried repitching yeast, adding nutrient, shaking it, racking it (for O2) and I've even added...

I'm having a bit of trouble with a batch of cider I'm fermenting, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice. I've got about 5 different batches going right now; four are going great, but one is stuck! Here are the specs; Pitch date: Jan 6 OG: 1.080 FG: hopefully 1.005 or so. Yeast...

Over the past two winters, I've put together a group of friends, pressed apples and made an assortment of different types of ciders for them. In short, I make both sweet cider (FG=1.045) and dry cider (FG=?), sparkling and flat, and ciders at 5%, 10% and 14%. In proper Quebec style, freeze and...

I am making some hard cider, but the fermentation seems to have gotten stuck. The juice I used had no preservatives in it, I was very careful to check that. The OG was 1.120, it is stuck at 1.040, I used EC 1118, which should be good up to 18%. The temperature is 18oC (about 65oF). I've already...

Every winter I get a group of friends together and they all put in some money, and I make cider for them. This year I decided to get fancy and make sparkling cider, so I put on my engineering hat and built myself a keg! In short it is a stainless steel fire extinguisher to which I have made...