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After being bottle conditioned for over a month now, my most recent cider is ready. It's has a nice sweet finish to it due to a sweeter in the kit that must not be fermentable. So for all those looking for a sweet cider the mangrove hacks pear cider kit will be a good starting point. I made a...

As soon as its ready it will be sampled, then sampled each 3 months for a year to see how it matures. If it turns out above average I will post the recipe for anyone interested

I forgot to mention that I'm only making 19 litres not 23. My local homebrew shop owner said that could push the sg up a couple of points. He said it should be fine to bottle so I put my faith in him and bottled up. I do have the bottles boxed and the boxes wrapped in a tarp just incase

Got it sitting on 1.020 sg for 3 days so added flavourings (kit pear, and lorann blue/blackberry oils 1 dram of each) after waiting 3 days for yeast to settle back down I bottled it. Used coppertun carbo drops as I'm going for a fizzy product. Now the waiting game begins :)

Thanks for your advice/help, 750ml grolsch bottles aren't cheap, didn't want to make bombs :)

The yeast I used was contained in the kit, unsure of type though. the kits ingredients also listed yeast nutrient. I've kept te temp up around 22/23 and although I haven't noticed any activity with the airlock, the sg has dropped to 1.020 from 1.024 in the last 4 days. I should just wait until...

My second brew is a mangrove jacks kit which I added sufficient sugars to achieve 9.5% (brew enhancer 10 and 1kg dextrose), after 4 days of none stop bubbling it slowed to a full stop. I'm sure the temp didn't fall below 20 but the sticker thermometer may be a little inaccurate. After 2 days of...