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Hi! I bottled my cider about a week ago and made a priming with 6g/liter of sugar. I'm not expert so I'm asking if I should observe something in the bottles that shows that the fermentation started again... Don't know, should I see bubbles or nothing at all? Fermentation will be anonymous?

Hi ! I have a young cider in cold crash for a week. After a week from fermentation's end it had a reduction smell and was very cloudy. Today the smell did not disappeared. It should be a reduction/sulphur smell (h2s). It should not be a problem to get rid of it by oxygenation or using copper or...

Two weeks ago I started my fermentation with a mj m02 cider yeast. After about a week it slowed down a lot and I should have 1.001/0.998 sg. I leaved it in the fermenter for another week a total of 13 days. Today I racked and I noticed it smelled a bit like lees and it was very cloudy. I...

I'm gonna made my first cider by using a grape crusher and a wine torque used to make grape wine. The grape crusher is similar to an apple crusher but did not has the "knives". Mine is just like the one in the pic. Would it work well? I'm gonna cut the apples before, naturally.

Hi there! I'm from Italy and it's my first time making cider. I have some doubts. I'm going to use a fruit press and a crusher that I use to make grape wine. I'm reading a book about cider making and I read that it is possible to use potassium metabisulphite just like we do whit wine. The book...

Hi there! I'm from Italy and I have a press that we use to make grape wine. It is a big one, I think 150kg. I will also use a manual crusher before pressing. According to you can I use it to make cider? Someone suggested me to use a fabric filter inside the wooden "walls" to retain the pulp and...

Hi there, I'm from Italy and I live in Abruzzo, were we have a lot of vineyards. We do not have a tradition for sparkling wine but in the last 2 years I'm trying to make champagne. I tried to find something about the maximum total acidity values but I cannot find anything. I made two wines a...