A fermented beverage made from apple juice
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Is leaving some cider in the primary bad?
When bottling my cider (FG 1.000) I ran out of bottles and saw this as an opportunity to flavour the remaining third and try racking.
I added some boiled cinnamon and clove then left it for a day ...
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My cider stopped fermenting after it accidentally got opened and darkened in color
I am making a Pom Cider and the bubbler cap got taken off my cider, 2 days later it has stopped fermenting and is darkening in color. Is it done? Is is bad? Can I fix it?
Thanks
~~J
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odd film on my cider
I went to rack my cider into a secondary, pulled off the lid of my primary and saw this whitish film. I racked it and the film stuck to the sides of the primary as the cider level dropped off.
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Back Sweetening Naturally Carbonated Cider
I plan to keg my cider at 0.7 baume (approx 12g/l) residual sugar to carbonate my cider to 3 volumes of CO2.
If I add pasteurized apple juice to sweeten my cider after kegging, will this ferment out? ...
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Kill yeast in keg
I've got a batch of cider that I've kegged. I did so at about 1.011 (OG was 1.052 IIRC). While the yeast activity will decline as the keg chills, I'd like to stop it completely so that I can bottle ...
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Apple juice for hard cider (UK)
I need a recommendation about an apple juice that I can buy in order to make hard cider. I have read that it requires an apple juice without preservatives, but is there anything else I need to look ...
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Aerating bottled apple juice for cider
I understand that disolved oxygen is good for yeast, and aeration is done near the time of pitching in beer making. Does this rule hold true for bottled apple juice as it does for wort? Would apple ...
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Where can I buy a keg of Strongbow Cider in Virginia (near DC)? [closed]
I am looking for a place where I can buy Strongbow Cider in Northern Virginia, preferably near Washington D.C. Does anyone know of a distributor?
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How much heat can a demijohn take?
I'm planning to serve some homemade cider, hot and mulled at a market stall in the coming weeks. I'll be siphoning out of a 23L demijohn (like this: ...
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Cider molding and wont go away but not getting worse?
I have three ciders going, two "spiced" ciders and one regular/standard whatever the straight apple squeezed cider ("Ryan's" brand if anyone is familiar) is called. This is my first attempt at cider, ...
