carbonate and back sweeten cider

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If I use original apple juice to back sweeten cider and I also want to add, say, 100 grams of brewing sugar to carb. One litre of juice has 50 grams of sugar, does this mean I should only add 50 grams of brewing sugar?

Numbers are made up just for use of example
 
No. If you want to backsweeten & carbonate, you must either use a non-fermentable sweetener (stevia, nutrasweet, xylitol, etc...) to back sweeten & then add fermentable sugar to prime & carb. OR backsweeten with a fermentable sugar, prime & then allow the yeast to partially ferment it to carbonate, then pasteurize. If you have a kegging setup, you could also backsweeten & stabilize, then force carb. As for the amount of priming sugar (corn sugar/dextrose) to carb, the standard amount is (by weight) 4-5 oz. (113.39g - 141.74g.) per 5 US gallons of cider/beer; according to the online standard/metric calc. That does NOT include any amount for backsweetening.

You could both back sweeten & carb by adding either fresh juice or juice concentrate, but you'd need to pasteurize to avoid bottle bombs & do the math as to how much would be equal to the amount of sugar you'd need.
Regards, GF.
 
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