Hello! After a couple of years of making cider spread across 4 rooms around the house (kitchen, laundry, spare bath, and garage), I am finally embarking on building out a dedicated space for cider making. I’m adding another garage stall which is below grade on the back wall so if i build a room...
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Anyone have any tips for backsweetening cider? The last couple batches I've made, I've used splenda to sweeten and then dark maple syrup to prime for a natural carbonation level of about 2-3 volumes. I like a pretty sparkley cider! I'm not a huge fan of the splenda taste but I don't...
I bought some really tasty local honey from a friend and I'd like to use it to make half of my recent batch of hard cider into a sparkling version. I know that honey will ferment aggressively and I don't want to overdo it and have a bunch of grenades going off in my basement. Does anyone have...
First try here making some hard cider from apples I picked and pressed from a local orchard. I started with two gallons of my own pressing, and one additional gallon of raw juice that I purchased from the orchard just to compare some different apples. I am working with three 1-gallon carboys...