MisterWoody
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I would like to age a cider in the bottles the juice came in. I don't want to buy new equipment right now and I don't want to keep my fermentation bucket or carboy tied up.
My thoughts on the process are this:
1) Let cider ferment til I reach my desired sweetness.
2) Rack the cider into a pot then pasteurize the whole batch in the pot.
3) Cool, then rack to the bottles I bought the juice in.
4) Let them sit a few months.
5) Rack to a bottling bucket, add some priming sugar, pitch some yeast.
6) Bottle, condition, pasteurize.
I know it adds some extra work and extra steps but it saves me the $30 to buy a carboy for a secondary.
Any thoughts?
My thoughts on the process are this:
1) Let cider ferment til I reach my desired sweetness.
2) Rack the cider into a pot then pasteurize the whole batch in the pot.
3) Cool, then rack to the bottles I bought the juice in.
4) Let them sit a few months.
5) Rack to a bottling bucket, add some priming sugar, pitch some yeast.
6) Bottle, condition, pasteurize.
I know it adds some extra work and extra steps but it saves me the $30 to buy a carboy for a secondary.
Any thoughts?