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    Cider overcarbed and "Instant solution" doesn't seem to cut it

    This is my first batch of anything, including kegging. Did my batch of cider, went through all the steps, treated and back sweetened appropriatly, put into two different kegs , one 3 gal in a 5 ball lock, and 2 gal into a smaller 2.5g keg. I did some playing with flavors in the second keg...
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    Yeast issues and perhaps temperature?

    So I am making a batch of lemonade/honey mead suggested by one of the other posts in here. I used a wyeast sweet mead yeast package. It got going from what I could see, and I poured it in per directions. However, after I poured It I noticed the temperature on my liquid was close to 80-...
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    Cheapest/easiest way to chill my keg for bottling

    So I don't have any sort of freezer/fridge I can use to chill my keg down to bottling temperature. I'm force carbing, backsweetening, a hard cider I know chilling is not as much an issue with hard cider, but I don't want to loose the integrity of the product while I'm bottling I'm using a beer...
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    Cider Flavored with "flavored Vinegar" ?

    So, I'm making my first batch of cider, I'm going to backsweeten, force carb, and bottle When making cocktails I've used "Shrub" before, IE https://shrubandco.com/product/spicy-ginger-16-oz/ Its Vinegar/Fruits & Flavor/sweetner It makes good cocktails, and has a bunch of different...
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    Force carbing at room temp? and bottling?

    So I am on my first batch of hard cider, its been sitting in secondary about 3 weeks now, and its pretty clear. Clear enough I'm encouraged to get it into bottles. I'm back sweetening my cider, so before I bottle I'm going to either pasteurize it, or add chems to stop/prevent yeast from...
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    First Cider Batch questions - Backsweeten, force carbonation - pasteurization

    So I'm new to brewing, but I'm starting with hard cider. I'm on my secondary fermentation and I'm thinking about bottling. I want a sweeter cider, so I'm looking at options to kill off all the yeast and backsweeten. I ended up getting a nice kegging setup on craigslist for pretty cheap, so I...
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