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I have had mine in carboy for several months. Ive had to repitch once. Gravity is slowly moving however I have no hopes this will ever be done. Im so dissappointed. It tastes good just no detectable alcohol. Not sure what to do at this point.

Yes I want a semi sweet/carb'd cider. I have stove top past. before and it worked great. I will wait for the newest fermentation to stop and take a gravity reading again. Thanks!!

Im still relatively new to this! So I racked the cider into a new carboy. FO is 0 so this tells me its done right? The alcohol content is definately there however I need to improve the taste. I added 1 gallon of apple juice. Question: Since gravity is at 0 and I added the apple...

I believe one of my 5 gallon batches has this. So you rack into diff carboy and add apple juice to fill headspace? And it will be safe to drink?

Daze... Oh yea..... crap!!!!! That wont work! Back to bottle pasteurizing!

Dang bulk pasteurization!!!! Im going to give it a try! I did the bottle pasteurization once and out of 48 bottles I only had one blow.... all over the kitchen. In another batch I killed off the yeast using said chemicals and backsweetened just a tad. I find Im not fond of non carbonated...

8 - 5 gallons primarys with diff variations of cider. 1 - 5 gallon apple wine 1 - 5 gallon hard lemonade

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Thanks Barley-and-Hops! The garage didnt get down that low (it was more in the 50's) and as luck would have it it DID ferment to 0! I tasted each batch last night....definite alcohol!! I will rack tomorrow. I have read that cold fermenting can be a good thing and honestly at this point I...

So I made a mistake. I had 40 gallons (8 - 5 gallons buckets) of cider fermenting in the garage. It was too cold and the yeast didnt do anything. Airlocks were quiet. Its been three weeks and I finally had room to move all the primaries into the house. So can I assume I can just add...

Thank you!!!! Yes I knew the first one was more an apple wine....I just expected it to taste different!!!!!! And yes I agree next time I will not use powdered spice blends. Im going to try to filter it out before bottling. So I guess at this point I will bottle the first batch in wine...

Questions for the following ciders that I have fermenting. Im not really fond of the taste of either one of these at this point. How much longer do I need to let these sit in the carboy? How to sweeten? Add apple conc at bottling? Add more dextrose at bottling? I plan on bottle...

the juice is unfiltered so there is already sediment!!! Im just going to wing it on the amount of pear. Thanks for the response.

LOL Love it!

I have 40 gallons of fresh unfiltered apple cider so this weekend Im going to start 8 - 5 gallon batches of hard cider. I want to add fresh pears that have been put through a blender to one five gallon batch. Im hoping some of the pear flavor will come through? Will this work? And any...

Last night I tasted the cider before I pitched the yeast... holy cow This stuff is beyond good!!! OG 1.10 Pitched the yeast and now I wait. Once the airlock is quiet I will rack into secondary and wait. I know this is a ton of sugar and Ive not done this with cider before (have...

Newsman-I made that recipe and didnt like the flavor. This is what I did (going from memory here) - I found this on the forum here. 5 gallons fresh pressed unfiltered apple juice 5 lbs honey 1 lb dark brown sugar 1 lb dextrose acid blend pectic acid yeast nutrient L1118 yeast 1 -...

Is this still or is there carb after you bottle it?

Still trying to figure out what to do here. Browsing the mead forum... trying to adapt for cider 5 gallons cider Dextrose Brown Sugar Apple Pie Spice blend Maybe vanilla beans Yeast not sure which one yet

I have been searching for an apple pie type of cider recipe. I tried the caramel apple cider (using starbucks syrup) and didnt like the taste. So now I would like to try a more apple pie flavor. For five gallons: what yeast would be good for this and sugar... from few recipes on here...