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What flavour do apple seeds impart on the cider? I am trying to decide what to do with my seeds. The way I see it I have three choices: 1) throw everything in like I did last year 2) throw everything in except for loose seeds. Loose seeds will end up being a fair number if it goes like last...

My first batch of cider turned out sour, barely drinkable. It was made with random apples from the market. It was a good experience and I learned lots. I had a lot more control over my second batch. I made it with one 50 lb box of McIntosh, 2 60 lb boxes of Jona Gold and 2 60 lb boxes of...

Two years ago I made some cider from some apples purchased at a local market using a store bought juicer. It was messy and and inefficient. This year I bought 5 50-60 pound boxes of apples mostly from a grower in the Okanagan Valley (BC, Canada). 6 weeks later my press and grinder are...

I recently racked my secondary to a half sized carboy and two gallon jugs because I had so much sediment, which I call apple sauce, and I wanted to remove my cider from the lees. The second gallon jug was not quite full so I added 750mL or so of pomegranate juice as an experiment. After two...

I wish to use stevia to back sweeten my cider. I don't want to use lactose as I am partially intolerant and a good friend of mine is lactose intolerant as well. I also don't want to use an artificial sweetener such as splenda. That leaves me with stevia. Stevia appears on the shelf in...

I am currently nearly decided on brown glass 22oz (650mL) beer bottles from my LHBS. The only reason I am holding back is that they want $20 per dozen and my batch is 23L so I would need 3 dozen. I should say that I am planning on priming my cider before bottling for carbonated goodness...