[IBU] bottling hard cider

[Mike Young]

Mark pretty much hit the nail on the head.  If you want to have a sweet
cider and don't have a kegging setup, you can bottle your cider the way
I make it but you can't have it carbonated.  If you want to bottle and
have carbonated cider, it will have to be dry.  When I first started
trying to brew hard cider, I searched several forums and sites online
but none seemed to produce the results I wanted.  I even tried splenda
to back sweeten, and that didn't work out well at all.  I really hate
the fake sugar taste, so that was definitely out.  It wasn't until I
started kegging that I was able to make a cider using potassium sorbate
and back-sweetening with concentrate that I actually enjoyed.  Sorry I
can't be of more help with your issue.

 

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From: ibu-bounces at iowabrewersunion.org
[mailto:ibu-bounces at iowabrewersunion.org] On Behalf Of Mark McAndrews
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:18 PM
To: tj at vancecoffman.com; ibu at iowabrewersunion.org
Subject: Re: [IBU] bottling hard cider

 

You have a bit of a problem. The sugars in apples tend to be very
fermentable, thus baring any other problems hard cider finishes very
dry. In the recipe you linked to the reason to kill the yeasties is so
they don't ferment the apple concentrate added to the keg so that more
apple flavor survives. If you don't kill off the yeasties you will end
up with a drier cider than the recipe calls for and with a bit less
apple flavor. 

 

Keg and counter pressure fill would give you carbonated cider in the
bottle, but won't carbonate in the bottle. If you want bottle
conditioned cider it will be dry (unless some other condition stops the
yeast from fermenting farther - lack of nutrients, alcohol tolerance,
exploding bottles....). If you want sweet cider or semi-sweet cider
bottle conditioned it will be still or petilant (bottling cold will hold
a bit of natural carbonation even after the yeasties are killed). 

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: TJ Vance <mailto:crazyjuggler at gmail.com>  

	To: ibu at iowabrewersunion.org 

	Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:32 PM

	Subject: [IBU] bottling hard cider

	 

	Hey all,
	
	I was at the last meeting and enjoyed the company and knowledge.
	
	I'd like to recreate the hard cider that Mike brought with him,
but the recipe I have on hand calls for killing off of the yeast after
fermentation.
	
	My question is, does anyone have an idea how I could carbonate
that recipe inside of bottles?
	
	The recipe I'm shooting from at this point is from Theron
Conrey's site, his instructions are here:  http://www.conrey.org/?p=52
	
	Any ideas would be appreciated.
	
	TJ

	
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