wizurd1977
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Hi all,
Sorry if this is repeating questions, i just wanted to check that i've got the right idea with regards to my first TC.
So i'm doing it in a demijohn which is around 5 litres.
I'm using 4 litres of apple juice from concentrate from Tesco (do i need to add any water as well?).
With that i'm adding a cup of properly stewed tea (so 3 tea bags for 15 mins) plus a tsp of malic acid.
I'm using mangrove jacks cider yeast, but thinking that i only need half the pack (its 11g) since im only doing 5 litres ish.
I think that's everything. I'll then ferment for around 10 days.
Then rack to a secondary vessel and batch prime to put into PET bottles.
So my questions are:
How can I figure out what the percentage of the cider will be? i'd like something stronger say around 7 per cent. The apple juice i'm using works out around 113 gram sugar per litre. Should i also be adding more sugar at the beginning and if so can i just dissolve this in the cup of tea before it all goes into the FV?
I don't want a dry cider so i was going to add some fake sugar i.e. canderel when i batch prime. How much do i need to add though to get a medium sweetness and will it taste like fake sugar in the cider?
Also how much sugar should i add to get a good carbonation?
Again sorry if i'm asking repeating questions. I have looked around but think i've read so many different things that i'm just confused lol
Sorry if this is repeating questions, i just wanted to check that i've got the right idea with regards to my first TC.
So i'm doing it in a demijohn which is around 5 litres.
I'm using 4 litres of apple juice from concentrate from Tesco (do i need to add any water as well?).
With that i'm adding a cup of properly stewed tea (so 3 tea bags for 15 mins) plus a tsp of malic acid.
I'm using mangrove jacks cider yeast, but thinking that i only need half the pack (its 11g) since im only doing 5 litres ish.
I think that's everything. I'll then ferment for around 10 days.
Then rack to a secondary vessel and batch prime to put into PET bottles.
So my questions are:
How can I figure out what the percentage of the cider will be? i'd like something stronger say around 7 per cent. The apple juice i'm using works out around 113 gram sugar per litre. Should i also be adding more sugar at the beginning and if so can i just dissolve this in the cup of tea before it all goes into the FV?
I don't want a dry cider so i was going to add some fake sugar i.e. canderel when i batch prime. How much do i need to add though to get a medium sweetness and will it taste like fake sugar in the cider?
Also how much sugar should i add to get a good carbonation?
Again sorry if i'm asking repeating questions. I have looked around but think i've read so many different things that i'm just confused lol