Watermelon cider- boil or no boil

[Joewalla88]

I just picked a couple of nice watermelons from the garden and I wAs thinking of running them through the juicer, and adding some yeast to make a watermelon cider. Do I really need to boil this first? All my ciders before have been made from bottled juice, this would be the first time using freshly juiced juice.

 

[Randzor]

Use one campden tablet per gallon and wait 24 hours before pitching the yeast.

 

[javalin]

I would boil and then add an ethanol starter, such as a small amount of vodka. Watermelon juice has a tendency to turn rancid really quickly on its own. Learned that after my watermelon wine turned out as watermelon rot.