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Probably get the bung loose by using warm water to soften it...? Been to Lidl and bought 4lts of juice from concentrate (don't know if it works or not) and 4lts of cloudy fresh juice. Added half a sachet of wilkos yeast to each as it doesn't actually say on the packet how much to add to what...

Evening all. So ive just bottled loads of cider and pressed another 10lts. Done this press totally natural. Not adding anything at all! This leaves me with 6 empty demis which i don't like haha. Going to nip down to Lidl tomorrow and get some apple juice. I already have a few cider yeast...

Hi all. Right so in the end i bottled it last night. Added one drop of liquid sweetner to each bottle and will leave then capped to mature now. I also did some with wilko carbonating tablets in, which i found really good last year to add the fizz and a little sweetness. As for tonight well...

Thanks for the advice guys. Would you leave them in the demis or bottle them.up so their sealed up? I did Campden them the other night so they should of 'stopped' as such....

With my cider brews i webt to Wilko and got some fizz drops. Their basically sugar drops. Just added two to each bottle before capping and it adds a great fizz after a month or two. Not sure if they work for beer though. ..

My friend got a load of Innocence apple juice on the cheap a while back. Shoved it in a demi with a little yeast and sugar.... job done! It was really nice and didn't take long at all :-)

Evening all. I have 10 gallons of homebrew cider thats been going for 2 months now. After pressing i Campden tabbed it and yeasted 24h later. I also added 100g of brewing sugar to each demi just to give it a kick start. One demi i left well alone and kept natural. I racked off after about 5...