[deepsouth]

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.

[monomer77]

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.

[tschmidlin]

I've had cider made from store bought juice that was delicious when it was very young.

[dano14041]

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?

[Malticulous]

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.

[deepsouth]

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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.