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I got some wine sweetener and added small amounts to my pear cider and all I can say is a big thanks for the advice. Such a small bottle has turned the dry cider into a fine tasting pear cider that is going to go down well when its matured.

Ok will try thanks for the help

I made a pear cider from a kit that I followed to the letter. Cider has now cleared but on testing its dry and not sweet but dull. It smells right but taste is wrong how can I make my next one less dry and slightly sweeter?. On a totally different subject is it possible to make a apple cider...

Right I've primed my first pear cider with table sugar about four weeks ago and alls well. I have another pear kit to make and was thinking of priming with Demerara sugar too see how different the flavour would be. Has anyone done this that can give advice on priming amounts for 23l if it...

The oxi- bar are the coopers PET bottles that I use.

Well my hydrometer reading is just in the ready to bottle band about 1008. So you do roughly 6x28 grams for bulk priming.

I'm primely a beer maker but I like cider so I am trying a can kit pear cider. I've followed my regimented routine of warming the wort making the mix to 23l adding the brewing sugar and yeast. I'm using a bucket fermenter with a heat band and airlock. I bottle in 500ml oxi-bar brewing...

Some contaminated the batch not sure if something got in the barrel or something was already in the fermenter but I now double clean and am double careful when bottling/ barreling

Sorry for bad spelling four pints of stout and using iPhone to write message all not a good combination

Right time for the update well the first batch was a bad one somehow something went wrong so it was a throw away. But good news second brew a velvet stout was spot on I'm drinking it and all I can say is its great. I'm currently brewing a copper bitter and once that's barrelled I'm starting my...

Will be getting a heater belt soon so beer temperature will be easier to control. Fermentation slowed right down because of low temp

This after 10 days of fermenting looking like its getting there

Jon sugar ain't "crap" it's pellets of baby alcohol wait to grow and kick your legs out from under you lol