Cider / Brewing virgin! please help!

[George7845]

add so much sugar to the gallon right before you bottle for carbonation, depending on what kinda of sugar you are using the amount needed per gallon changes. You add sugar, bottle that day, yeast eats sugar and farts out gas. Then gas goes towards top of the bottle, has no place else to go, so goes back into your cider, but maker sure your ferment is done first, and i would say after a month, most likely. There are a bunch of people on this site that are awesome, ive bombed Yooperbrew with so many questions i thought she would disown me. So dont be afraid to ask around before you do something stupid and potentially ruin a month of your time you just waited.

 

[George7845]

and no, i decided not to carbonate, cause if you want a sweet cider it is pretty hard to cabonate unless you have kegging capabilities.