First time cider maker

[nizce]

Hi

I had My cider fermenting in primary for 1 month and the another month in secondary. After that i kegged it and purged it with co2 and then added 1.2 Bar pressure.
Just tasted it yeasterday. I thought i liked Dry cider, but apperantly not around 1.000 mark, it tastes waaay to sour/tart(like sour white wine)

I guess back sweetening it "might" solve the problem, but not sure.

Would it be best to:
1. Remove the pressure
2. Add x amount of non-fermentable sugar
3. Purge with co2
4. bring pressure up to carbonationlevel

Or should I change step no. 2 to:
2a. add capden and potassium to the keg
2b. Add table sugare dissolved in boiling water to keg


Please let me know what you think

PS. I dont like the "sweet" taste of light products, but dont know if all non-fermentable sugars gives that artificiell sweet taste.

 

[Yooper]

First, pour 1/2 glass as it is and add some sugar to see if that is more to your liking. If it is, take the SG of the sample and sweeten your whole batch to that SG.

If you have the keg cold, it probably doesn't need to be stabilized first. If the keg is not very cold, you'd want to add the campden and sorbate before sweetening.

 

[nizce]

Thanks, ill try with a small sample first and measure!

The keg will not be stored below 5c/40f, most likely around 12c/54f so i guess chemicals is neesed.
Does adding the chemicals require me to leave the keg lid off for a day or two, and have a towel over the keg to not make it taste weird?

 

[Maylar]

No.