Bottling cider

[Craig s.]

How much sugar per gallon do I add when bottling cider

 

[KaiB]

How much sugar per gallon do I add when bottling cider

That depends on three primary factors.

1) Is fermentation complete now?
2) What are you trying to achieve?
and 3) Which sugar do you intend to use?

 

[Chalkyt]

As a rough "rule of thumb" I use a teaspoon per litre (4-5 teaspoons per gallon) to get petillant carbonation. But a better method is to add sugar (or AJ or FAJC) to bring your SG up by 0.002-0.004 ( or more or less depending on what level of carbonation you want) to get the same result regardless of the quantity of cider you are dealing with. Obviously you will need a hydrometer to do this. This adds on top of whatever SG the cider is at now, so if you are above 1.000 and it still has a way to go, beware of bottle bombs.

See Jolicoeur's Table 15-3 for more information.

 

[Craig s.]

That depends on three primary factors.

1) Is fermentation complete now?
2) What are you trying to achieve?
and 3) Which sugar do you intend to use?

It has been fermenting for three weeks, trying to achieve slight carbonation, and as far as sugar goes that would be another question do I reuse brown sugar or can I carbonate with apple juice concentrated

 

[z-bob]

I add 7 to 7.2 grams of white sugar per 1 liter bottle.

 

[njohnsoncs]

Use a calculator like https://www.northernbrewer.com/pages/priming-sugar-calculator

I tend to go for 2.5 vol of CO2 for my cider. Works well.

 

[KaiB]

It has been fermenting for three weeks, trying to achieve slight carbonation, and as far as sugar goes that would be another question do I reuse brown sugar or can I carbonate with apple juice concentrated

Let's save you a bit of research...

What is your current SG, how much cider do you have fermenting?

To start, most find it easier to use AJC. Read the label to determine how much sugar there is per serving - and how many servings there are per can.

The one I use has 28g per serving (6 servings per can) so it is just right for 6 gallons. We use 28g per gallon.

BUTBUTBUT...if fermentation is not complete, you will have sugar left in your cider and adding sugar could create a bad situation. There are ways around this, but given your original question, you are not ready to read up on them.