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    Flavor...or Flavour(For us Canadians)

    I've got 10 or 15 gallons of cider. I'd like to flavour some with strawberries...or whatever fruit that is now growing around. What is the best, or preferred method of adding that to existing cider? Do I need to boil the fuit to kill yeast etc before hand or just add it for a few days then...
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    First mead tasting like butter

    I used QA23. Thanks, I'll look at the article.
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    First mead tasting like butter

    This mead is almost 6 months old. I'll leave it for a while and see if it goes away. I'd just like to figure out what I did wrong because it didn't have the taste till I added the chemicals and honey...Just not sure what did it, the honey, the chemicals, or something that got mixed in during the...
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    First mead tasting like butter

    Any other ideas? Thanks
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    First mead tasting like butter

    I got my info from this: http://www.northernbrewer.com/winemaking/potassium-sorbate. In any case no bubble gum flavor. Thanks
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    First mead tasting like butter

    Plain mead, just honey, water, fermaid k. 1 gallon. We tasted it a couple days ago and it was good but a bit tart. I added wracked into a second jug and added potassium sorbate(half teaspoon) and potassium metabisulfite(1 campden tablet). Last night I filtered out the bits of campden that...
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    Fresh sqeezed apples juice pasteurization or campden tablets

    I pressed it myself so no UV light. Thanks for the advice Jon
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    Fresh sqeezed apples juice pasteurization or campden tablets

    So it seemed like last year when I made hard apple cider....pasteurization was the cool thing to do....now seems like campden tablets are better for flavor.... Most of the stuff I've read doesn't really fill me with confidence. And I've got 15+ gallons to do. I'm going to do half and half I...
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    Slow going?

    Hi, Started with 2 batches of 5 gallons. Started over 2 months ago and the batches are still bubbling. One batch is 1.025, other is 1.040. Two different types of yeast. Seems to me like this is taking forever to finish (I've only done beer in the past). Should I re rack this or do the...
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