Recent content by Raallen

As a follow up to my last post #919, I used the same recipe and let the bottles carbonate for only 14 hours (last batch was 2 days to carb). Results are awesome. No broken bottles through an entire 5 gallon batch. And I must say, the bottles that survived my first batch came out like...

Pappers, I guess this works for you due to the bottles you use. I had a really bad experience using this method to heat pasturize the 5 Day Country Cider recipe. I had 1 bottle explode in each of the first 2 batches. The 3rd batch, all bottles made it. The 4th batch, I had 6 of 7 blow up...