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Back sweetened my cider and let it carb in the bottles I then pasteurized it but when I did 2 bottles 1 blew the cork and one came out great! Anyone have this problem with blowing corks? If so how can I minimize it? I'm thinking I should have taken the pot off the burner and they simply just...

Last night I backsweetened my 1 gal tester and bottled 3 bottles and drank the rest. It was delicious. I put some in a plastic bottle to test carb. Noticed this morning it is already firming up a lot. How tight is that bottle gonna get before I should go ahead and pasteurize? I really don't...

Pulled a 1 gal taster and placed it in the fridge to cold crash, was planning on using brown sugar dissolved in a little fresh cider to be my priming sugar, in order to carbonate my cider and back sweeten it a little bit. Was planning on stove top pasteurizing it after about 5 days bottled...

Racked my first batch of cider this weekend to get out the lees. It had a somewhat pleasant taste but was still yeasty and a little sour but I think I'm getting fairly close to what I want to get. I lost a little volume and since I was working on another batch at the time I added in a little...

I'm in the primary stage with my first batch of hard cider and plan on picking up a hydrometer in the coming days. It's been sitting for about three weeks and I think I'm ready to rack it and taste it to remove the lees and sample what's to come. What readings am I looking for to make a semi...

Looking for a few suggestions on proper racking and when to do it. I have a batch that is bubbling at about every 3-5 seconds. And has been going for almost 2 weeks...any kind of advice will help I am assuming racking doesn't tamper with it and it just stirs things up for the yeast to eat up...

Hi everyone, i joined this forum to pick everyone's brain about all aspects of making hard ciders and wines. I am a rookie at all of this, especially using different chemicals for optimum results. I am not completely new to this as I have been helping grandpa and my dad make wine here and...