a few cider questions

ScottM said:

That's really high for your cider so I would guess that it's possibly not done yet. A cider will normally finish around, mostly below, 1.000.

It's not overly high for a lager but that's also higher than I would expect a single can kit lager to finish at.

I would check them next week and see where they are at, hopefully the gravities will have dropped :)

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mick may said:

ScottM said:

That's really high for your cider so I would guess that it's possibly not done yet. A cider will normally finish around, mostly below, 1.000.

It's not overly high for a lager but that's also higher than I would expect a single can kit lager to finish at.

I would check them next week and see where they are at, hopefully the gravities will have dropped :)

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ok also there both sat at 21c ....
i cant put them any where in the house any cooler ..

regards mick... :hat: .

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Gayle said:

Great pics :thumb: My DH would get rather nervous if I was bottling beside electronic equipment :lol: The labels are great too

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mick may said:

plus my first cider batch ...
its very fizzy at first but it don't stay all the way till i drank the whole pint...
i did use 200g of sugar when batch priming ...
mabe i should use 300g this time ...
also your thoughts on this please ...
what do you think...

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oldbloke said:

Trouble with adding AJ is that the concentration of flavour is probably about the same as the kit, so you don't gain anything, you just get more volume.
If you have a hippyfood shop nearby, see if you can get some AJconcentrate. More apple flavour in less volume - but also a fair chunk of sugar so you have to be careful or it's just loopyjuice.

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oldbloke said:

mick may said:

plus my first cider batch ...
its very fizzy at first but it don't stay all the way till i drank the whole pint...
i did use 200g of sugar when batch priming ...
mabe i should use 300g this time ...
also your thoughts on this please ...
what do you think...

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More sugar won't help. Cider just doesn't hold fizz as well as beer - less protein content. Extra sugar will just make it even more fizzy at the start (possible fountains when you open the bottle) and it still won't last.
However, when I do TurboCider, I always add 1/2l per gallon of something other than AJ, to broaden the flavour, and some of the juices I've tried seem to hold the head pretty well - cherry in particular. Doesn't taste recognisably of cherry at that level but helps fill out the flavour a lot, and same sugar level as AJ so same final ABV.

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mick may said:

oldbloke said:

Trouble with adding AJ is that the concentration of flavour is probably about the same as the kit, so you don't gain anything, you just get more volume.
If you have a hippyfood shop nearby, see if you can get some AJconcentrate. More apple flavour in less volume - but also a fair chunk of sugar so you have to be careful or it's just loopyjuice.

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ill leave this time as i dont no of any shops like that around here ...
ill just get some juice and add it on the day i drink it that way i can have many flavors...

regards mick... :hat: .

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oldbloke said:

mick may said:

oldbloke said:

Trouble with adding AJ is that the concentration of flavour is probably about the same as the kit, so you don't gain anything, you just get more volume.
If you have a hippyfood shop nearby, see if you can get some AJconcentrate. More apple flavour in less volume - but also a fair chunk of sugar so you have to be careful or it's just loopyjuice.

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ill leave this time as i dont no of any shops like that around here ...
ill just get some juice and add it on the day i drink it that way i can have many flavors...

regards mick... :hat: .

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Whereabouts in Brizzl are you?

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mick may said:

im in warmley bs308dd area ...

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oldbloke said:

mick may said:

im in warmley bs308dd area ...

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A while ago this evening, before a long and painful experience with Neteller and Gala Casinos, I had a map of wholefood places round Brizl open in another tab, but if Warmley is where I remember it, they weren't round there. And mysteriously Google won't give me that map again.

I grew up in Keynsham. None of the family left there now though, so quite likely I'll never go back - they're all down Radstock way now.

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mick may said:

what was your long and painful experience with Neteller and Gala Casinos...???

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oldbloke said:

mick may said:

what was your long and painful experience with Neteller and Gala Casinos...???

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I was signing up with Gala to get the free subscription offer in PokerPlayer mag. Tried to make the initial deposit from Neteller. Kept getting an error. Logged in to triplecheck the money was there. Thought I'd maybe got the Sec Code wrong, asked to retrieve it, got asked a question I didn't have an answer for in my encrypted all-my-passwords file, got that wrong... account frozen. Had to phone them up, seems there's a list of 4 security questions I had no note of the answers for. Luckily the nice lady coaxed me through the ones that weren't obvious, after I'd got the obvious ones. Still dunno why it wouldn't move the cash though, I'd used a Visa card by then in case Gala timed out. Which is annoying as it's the first time I've deposited from my non-poker accounts since 1997.

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