Hello all!
I have some basic mead-making gear and I was hoping to make and bottle my own sweet hard cider and I can’t seem to find any good, simple recipes/tutorials online that take me from fermenting to back-sweetening and bottling a final product. I am not super particular about how it will taste and I’m definitely not expecting it to be perfect, just a simple quick project that will yield halfway decent results. Based on my limited understanding of brewing cider I was thinking about using pasteurized (but preservative free!) apple juice, brown sugar, some yeast nutrient and champagne yeast in a 5 gallon carboy w/ an airlock, letting it ferment for about two weeks, racking it into another carboy, backs-sweetening it with stevia and bottling it. I’m terrified of blowing up my bottles or making something inedible. I’m a little unsure on the timing/amounts of sugar I should stick with. Does anyone have any advice or beginner recipes to share??
Thank you so much!
I have some basic mead-making gear and I was hoping to make and bottle my own sweet hard cider and I can’t seem to find any good, simple recipes/tutorials online that take me from fermenting to back-sweetening and bottling a final product. I am not super particular about how it will taste and I’m definitely not expecting it to be perfect, just a simple quick project that will yield halfway decent results. Based on my limited understanding of brewing cider I was thinking about using pasteurized (but preservative free!) apple juice, brown sugar, some yeast nutrient and champagne yeast in a 5 gallon carboy w/ an airlock, letting it ferment for about two weeks, racking it into another carboy, backs-sweetening it with stevia and bottling it. I’m terrified of blowing up my bottles or making something inedible. I’m a little unsure on the timing/amounts of sugar I should stick with. Does anyone have any advice or beginner recipes to share??
Thank you so much!