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Hey gang, I'm in Durham, NC, and I make hard cider! Still learning and experimenting, but having fun. Except my initiation into the "bottle bomb" club. That was decidedly NOT fun (but a valuable lesson was learned). :mad: I'm a gal, 36 yrs, with 2 hound dogs and a cat. I run marathons and...

Seeing the thread on freezing bottles, I thought I'd ask you all what you do when you have a batch that goes too far along in bottle carbing and results in gushers. The only thing I've done so far is to open all the bottles, let them gush, and then pour all the salvageable cider into a...

Hey, y'all. I'm working with ground spices for a couple of fall ciders, and I'm wondering what you have used, and what your experiences have been, with things like tea bags, mesh bags, etc. for putting spices in without getting the floating particles. Thoughts? :mug:

Hi, all! I've got 2 questions that refer to the part of the process after cider is left to ferment totally (primary) and I've added fermentable sugar in order to both sweeten and carbonate (I have been bottle carbing and stovetop pasteurizing): 1) I know how to get the ABV of the product...