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In preparation to bottling up 15 gallons of cider, I decided a bottle rinser would be a worthwhile piece of equipment to have. And a bottle tree while I was at it. I've seen pictures of the rinser sitting on top of the bottle tree and it looked like a nice setup. I ordered the vinator...

This has me puzzled. I recently finished up two batches of Nottingham and S-04. I back-sweetened everything with xylitol and then split the batches up to try different back-carbing sugars: #1A: Nottingham with frozen apple juice concentrate (Tree Top) #1B: Nottingham with dextrose #2A...

I'm getting ready to brew another batch of cider. The apples we pressed this summer (currently in the freezer) produced some pretty sweet juice (sg 1.053) so for my last batch I didn't add any supplemental sugar since I was already at a PA of ~7% ABV. For this next batch I'd like to add some...

Newbie here, happy to be joining such a informative community! I'm in the middle of my first batch of cider and it is going very well! I am still undecided of what I am going to do when it comes time to bottle it, so that is the topic of this post. Some info: -8 gallons of freshly...