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thanks guys it is only a 10 litre batch, and yes a successfully pasturized in plastic bottle

hi i have searched for threads but couldnt find specific. so can anyone help please my cider has fully fermented after its first racking and now i want to bottle in 75ml pet bottles but i dont know how much sugar to add to carbonate, and how hard the bottles should be . i tested my dishwasher by...

thats what i was trying to say lol

pasturization gives me a headache

hi i think cranberries have that chemical which you use to stop yeast growing . not metabisolphate the other one

thanks guys thats great

can you pasturize in plastic bottles or will they melt

east sussex

ok thanks for your help, a soda stream is one of those things that carbonates drinks,well thats what we call em in england but it prob only does 1 litre at a time

hi live in east sussex, just got into homebrew cider, i made larger a few times about 10 years ago but iam sorounded by apple orchards and have 2 small trees in my garden so it was obvious what i had to do ,

i read that if the ph of the juice is higher then 3.8 then mlf is not good cause it can cause ropeness and the wrong organisms take hold

hi i am a bit worried about conditioning my cider in the bottles because of bottle bombs and cloudy cider. is it possible to rack to a c02 keg then fill bottles from it when its fizzy ? or would a soda stream work,

damn before i could cold crash and rack the sg dropped to1.000 could i add something to make it sweeter without it refermenting and a random question do the pressure barrels with co2 cartridge carb the cider or is it just for pressure i want carbonated but it sounds like a nightmare when you...

the thing i dont understand is i pasteurized some left over juice to drink as juice but it started to ferment in the bottle . did i not do it properly i think it was about 90 oc for 20 mins

what do you need for a keg setup and is there another way of carbonating without conditioning or expensive equipment

thanks for your reply. very informative ill remember that for next year

right i added some yeast nutrient the weather warmed up and its fermanting like mad, the prob now is the fruit came from old low nutrient tree, i wanted to make sweet cider , but as i added nutrient will it be even harder to slow it down. sg now 1.030

also i left it a day after sulphating before adding yeast

hi thanks for your replies, i added roughly 100ppm sulphate. i was thinking it might be too cold, can you get heaters that will keep it warm and will the juice be off after 12-13 days

hi iam new to homebrew and this forum , i was wondering if any one could help me, i pressed 5 gallons of juice i added so2 and pectin enzyme then i used a champagne yeast but its not fermenting the sg is 1.060 and hasnt dropped and its been 11 days so far, from the same batch of juice i left 3...