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Offline deepsouth

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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2010, 08:17:46 am »
i drank one last night (edwort's apfelwein) that had been bottled for about a year and a half and it had smoothed out a bunch.
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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2010, 08:56:27 pm »
store bought juice that's fermented has a window. It'll taste like gas the first 3 months. 6 - 12 months is the sweet spot. Let it age.

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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2010, 09:05:41 pm »
I've had cider made from store bought juice that was delicious when it was very young.
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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2010, 12:37:48 pm »
If you use the Apfelwein recipe, could you use potassium sorbate after fermentation has finished then back-sweeten with frozen concentrate to a desired sweetness? Then bottle for a still cider or keg for carbonation?
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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2010, 08:32:00 am »
If you want to bottle condition and back sweeten you need back sweeten in the glass at serving time (or use splenda or other unfermentable sweeteners.) A few oz of Sprite or juice works well.

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Re: Cider from store bought juice
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2010, 07:20:58 pm »
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Past two years I brought five gallons of this. This year, it floated in an hour. The year before, it took almost two. The one I took this year was aged one year.
Hoppy Homebrewers of South Mississippi (est. 2009)

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bottled:     white house honey ale