Question on bottling Edworts Apfelwein

[Jasperrrr]

Racked to secondary after 4 weeks onto a black tea and light spices mixture (2 cloves and one half stick cinnamon). It's been in the secondary for about 4 weeks and fermentation has def stopped.(8 weeks total at 68-70 degrees) I wanted to bottle carb but am pretty sure there isn't enough yeast to eat up the priming sugar? Am I right in this assumption? how much dextrose do I use? and how long to carb do you think? I am an uber noon so please be deal with me! Haha thanks!

 

[bdupree]

There should be plenty of yeast to bottle carb. 1oz sugar per gallon.

 

[Jasperrrr]

Thanks! Much appreciated, Hopefully no bottle-bombs!

 

[frazier]

You can also carb it with apple juice concentrate. Read the label, get the grams of sugar (they may call it "carbohydrate") per ounce of concentrate, and put in enough to get 28 grams per gallon. Works well that way.

 

[Jasperrrr]

Crap, I think I messed up. I racked onto 5 campden tabs that I used to sterilize the tea/spice mixture, added more applejuice to squeeze out headspace and fermentation has seemed to completely stop, cider has cleared (at 8 weeks total from brewday) I'm still worried about not enough yeast to carb? Should I just give up hopes on carbing this batch? Do I add sorbate at bottling? Or just bottle and open one every week? Prob should buy a keg but meh.

 

[Sober]

Still cider isn't the end of the world.

 

[Jasperrrr]

That's what I'm thinking, next time! I've also head of these devices to carb up water to seltzer water. I'm sure I could use that around the house if I really want it sparkling.

 

[RobWalker]

How much do you have? You could always force carb in a keg if there's plenty. They cost about £20 but totally worth it.