CidahMastah
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Potassium sorbate doesn't kill yeast, it inhibits yeast reproduction. Sulfites suppress yeast and can kill weaker yeasts (but not usually brewer/wine yeasts) - unless used in copious amounts they won't ever stop an active fermentation.
If you want to back sweeten effectively do the following:
1. cold crash your cider for 24-48 hours to get the yeast to drop out of suspension.
2. Rack cider onto 1/4 tsp per gal into a bottling bucket
3. back sweeten with (sugar, AJ concentrate, Cider, etc) to taste.
4. Add malic acid to taste if needed
5. Once you have the flavor you want, add 1 Kmeta (cambden tablet) per gallon and mix in without aerating.
This will give you a dry still cider that is stable. If you want to carbonate your cider (draft woodchuck) you can rack this into a keg and force cab for a draft cider. Or if you don't ahve a keg system see papper's sticky on how to bottle carb and then pasteurize.
well my hard cider is ready to come out of the carboy and goin into my 5 gallon keg... my question is i like my hard cider sweet like wood chuck style.. what would be the best way to sweeten it up , this is my frist time doing a hard cider so i just figured it would be best to ask before i do to make sure i dont screw anything up
Potassium sorbate doesn't kill yeast, it inhibits yeast reproduction. Sulfites suppress yeast and can kill weaker yeasts (but not usually brewer/wine yeasts) - unless used in copious amounts they won't ever stop an active fermentation.
If you want to back sweeten effectively do the following:
1. cold crash your cider for 24-48 hours to get the yeast to drop out of suspension.
2. Rack cider onto 1/4 tsp per gal into a bottling bucket
3. back sweeten with (sugar, AJ concentrate, Cider, etc) to taste.
4. Add malic acid to taste if needed
5. Once you have the flavor you want, add 1 Kmeta (cambden tablet) per gallon and mix in without aerating.
This will give you a dry still cider that is stable. If you want to carbonate your cider (draft woodchuck) you can rack this into a keg and force cab for a draft cider. Or if you don't ahve a keg system see papper's sticky on how to bottle carb and then pasteurize.