sportscrazed2
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Well I tried a sample of my first cider today and without sugar it was pretty undrinkable but when i added just a touch of sugar it was much better. Is there a preferred sweetner
Best sweetner?
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Many folks use fresh cider to sweeten. Also frozen concentrate apple juice.
I've used both. They will ferment thought. but if yer bottling sweet carbonated its good
sportscrazed2
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so what should i use a gallon or maybe half gallon of fresh apple juice to sweeten a 2.5 gallon batch? also how quickly will it ferment out?
I don't know the numbers, you could add till it tastes right, then add dextrose to prime then bottle and pasteurize I guess.
I'm sure a search will find folks backsweetening with cider.
Make sure you know what you are doing. Apple juice will ferment out unless you do something to kill the yeast to prevent it from fermenting. Adding apple juice and priming sugar just seems to be a recipe for disaster.
You can do it, but you need to know what you are doing to prevent having bottle bombs.
You can do it, but you need to know what you are doing to prevent having bottle bombs.
