Ash Morgan
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So my boyfriend and I decided to take up cider brewing during quarantine. We followed a YouTube recipe. It was all going swimmingly. It was bubbling a lot but so what?
We just tasted it yesterday ready for bottling and it tastes waaay too strong. Like, spirit strong. We added almost a kilo of sugar to about 4.5 litres of supermarket cloudy apple juice with 1 gram of specific cider yeast we got on Amazon. In hindsight, checking other recipes now, we realise we added too much sugar.
We didn't have a hydrometer at the start of the experiment so couldn't take an initial reading. Can anyone give us an approximate ABV now? It has been fermenting for 15 days now and the hydrometer reading yesterday was 0.996. Any help working out the ABV would be appreciated, or tips on how to weaken it down a bit now.
We just tasted it yesterday ready for bottling and it tastes waaay too strong. Like, spirit strong. We added almost a kilo of sugar to about 4.5 litres of supermarket cloudy apple juice with 1 gram of specific cider yeast we got on Amazon. In hindsight, checking other recipes now, we realise we added too much sugar.
We didn't have a hydrometer at the start of the experiment so couldn't take an initial reading. Can anyone give us an approximate ABV now? It has been fermenting for 15 days now and the hydrometer reading yesterday was 0.996. Any help working out the ABV would be appreciated, or tips on how to weaken it down a bit now.